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- 1951
- Not Rated
- Commercial Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1951
- Not Rated
- Commercial Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.
Written By: Max Ophüls, Arthur Schnitzler, Jacques Natanson
- 1951
- Not Rated
- Commercial Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 1951
- Not Rated
- Commercial Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
La Ronde
75
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Summary Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.
Written By: Max Ophüls, Arthur Schnitzler, Jacques Natanson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
75
90% Positive
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0% Mixed
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10% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
75
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It takes its audience on a dizzying swirl, like a waltz, or a champagne-induced headspin.
This elegant, imperishable romantic comedy is lighter in tone than the play and has a haunting score by Oscar Strauss (no kin to the waltz family).
The intricate work of a craftsman, and a beautiful appearance by the beguiling Simone Sigornet.
Ophuls’ technique is often on the nose, but it’s still exhilarating.
Max Ophuls’s witty version (1950) of Arthur Schnitzler’s play showing love as a bitterly comic merry-go-round.
Not one of the director's very greatest films on desire (see Letter from an Unknown Woman and Lola Montès for those), Ophüls' circular chain of love and seduction in 19th century Vienna is still irresistible.
La Ronde is two soulless hours of sexual musical chairs and popping bodices. It’s a personal film in the sense that Vadim’s presence is felt within every frame, but this charisma doesn’t register visually or theoretically but lecherously, usually through the single-minded sexual ambitions of the story’s attractive men.
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Production Company
Films Sacha Gordine
Release Date Sep 20, 1951
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round of Love With Eleven Stars
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination