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La Ronde(Criterion Collection)

 

  Written and Directed by Max Ophüls

France-Italy 1950 / Comedy / Comedy of Manners / Sex Comedy / 93 min / Black & White / Monaural / 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio / NTSC /  In French With Optional English Subtitles

Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani , Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux .

Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all are on equal footing in this multicharacter merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting, and shot with Ophuls's trademark mellifluous cinematography.

 
       

Bonus Features:

- 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 G้lin
- 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