Through a series of dove-tailing love vignettes, Max Ophüls offers us an enchanting
film replete with some of the greatest acting talent French cinema has known... [More...]
Although unmistakably a classic of French cinema, Le plaisir is marginally less
satisfying than Ophül’s other attempts at films tableaux (La Ronde and Madame
de…)... [More...]
Max Ophüls’ final film is his most visually stunning, whilst evoking the cinematographic
brilliance of his earlier masterpieces, La Ronde and Madame de…
Although made in the notoriously ephemeral Eastmancolor... [More...]
Cinematic biographies of famous artists are not a rare phenomenon, but few such films
manage to evoke the acute sense of despair and injustice that Montparnasse 19 does... [More...]
