LOLA MONTES (1955)

Cast

Plot

This biography of the celebrated 19th Century adventuress is told in flashback. The space between her memories and her role in a New Orleans circus symbolising the distance between wishful thinking and tawdry reality. Ophuls conjures that space into life by means of the most stylistic effects imaginable, compositions unmatched in their fluidity. Probably Ophuls's most sublime work, and a movie critic's dream.