| Release | Sep 16, 2008 |
| Video | Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| Audio |
French: Dolby Digital 1.0 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Studio | Criterion |
| Year | 1950 |
| Genre | Drama |
- 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
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.
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.
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Marcel MeroveeRobert VattierCharles VissiereAnton WalbrookSimone SignoretSerge ReggianiSimone SimonDaniel GélinDanielle DarrieuxFernand GraveyOdette JoyeuxJean-Louis BarraultIsa MirandaGerard PhilipeJean ClarieuxPaulette Frantz"La Ronde: The Criterion Collection"
Written byMax OphulsWritten byLouis DucreuxWritten byKurt FeltzWritten byJacques Natansonproduced byRalph Baum
produced bySacha Gordine
directed byMax Ophuls
Production Year: 1950
Written byMax OphulsWritten byLouis DucreuxWritten byKurt FeltzWritten byJacques Natansonproduced byRalph Baum
produced bySacha Gordine
directed byMax Ophuls
Production Year: 1950
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