La Ronde: The Criterion Collection (DVD)
APPROX. 97 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1950 - MPA RATING: NR
DVD Specifications
| Release date: | Sep 16, 2008 |
|---|---|
| Studio: | Criterion |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Video: | Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| Audio: |
French: Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Subtitles: | English |
Special Features
- Remastered Audio and Video (New, restored high-definition digital transfer)
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Susan White (author of The Cinema of Max Ophuls)
- Interview with Max Ophuls's son, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls
- Interview with actor Daniel Gélin
- Interview with film scholar Alan Williams
- Correspondence between Sir Laurence Olivier and Heinrich Schnitzler (the playwright's son), illustrating the controversy surrounding the source play
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
Synopsis
A Wonderful Merry-Go-Round of Love With Eleven Stars.Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon (1942's Cat People) lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophüls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-the-century (1897) play Reigen - LA RONDE (France) - aka The Roundabout (English translation).
Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats — all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting, and shot with Ophüls's trademark mellifluous cinematography.
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Cast & Crew
Criterion
presents
Daniel GélinDanielle DarrieuxFernand GraveyOdette JoyeuxJean-Louis BarraultIsa MirandaGerard PhilipeJean ClarieuxPaulette FrantzMarcel MeroveeRobert VattierCharles VissiereAnton WalbrookSimone SignoretSerge ReggianiSimone Simon
"La Ronde: The Criterion Collection"
Written byLouis DucreuxWritten byKurt FeltzWritten byJacques NatansonWritten byMax Ophulsproduced byRalph Baum
produced bySacha Gordine
directed byMax Ophuls
Production Year: 1950
"La Ronde: The Criterion Collection"
Written byLouis DucreuxWritten byKurt FeltzWritten byJacques NatansonWritten byMax Ophulsproduced byRalph Baum
produced bySacha Gordine
directed byMax Ophuls
Production Year: 1950
