Max Ophuls films

La Ronde

Taken from Arthur Schnitzler’s rather cynical play about sexual morals (or the lack of them) in turn of the century Vienna, Ophuls’ film recreates the scene more as nostalgia for a magical lost world of pleasure and romance.

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Le Plaisir

Adapted by Ophuls from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each relates a tale about pleasure. A favourite of both Godard and Kubrick, the latter commenting that "The staging of these great camera moves appeared more like a beautifully choreog...

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Letter From An Unknown Woman

Joan Fontaine gives the greatest performance of her career as the tragic heroine in this masterpiece set in turn of the century Vienna. Ophuls' celebrated flowing camera style is much in evidence, music is always playing in Vienna and his camera gl...

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Madame de...

Ophuls' penultimate film and arguably his masterpiece, this supremely elegant meditation on doomed, obsessive romantic love paints a completely intoxicating, visually resplendent portrait of fin de siecle Paris. A gliding camera exposes the vanities...

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The Reckless Moment

Classic film noir starring Joan Bennett as a woman who discovers the body of her daughter's lover, and disposes of the corpse, assuming her child is guilty of the murder. However, the mother is then blackmailed by a criminal (Mason, brilliant), who ...

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