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La Ronde

Director: Max Ophüls

Writer: Louis Ducreux

Cinematographer: Christian Matras

Starring: Anton Walbrook, Simone Simon, Simone Signoret

Studio/Run time: Films Sacha Gordine, 97 mins.

82/100

Le Plaisir

Director: Max Ophüls

Writer: Jacques Natanson

Cinematographer: Christian Matras

Starring: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, Simone Simon

Studio/Run time: Ccfc, 97 mins.

80/100

Earrings of Madame de.

Director: Max Ophüls

Writers: Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant

Cinematographer: Christian Matras

Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica

Studio/Run time: Franco London Films, 105 mins.

84/100

In almost any scene of any of the films made by director Max Ophüls, be it in Berlin (before the ascent of the Nazi party), Paris, Hollywood, and then back in Paris, lie the director’s primary concerns: Men and women, lust, love, theatrical artifice and the illusion of desire. Though a favorite of Stanley Kubrick and perhaps the only peer to Orson Welles with regards to innovative camera shots, »

1 article from 2008