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La Ronde | 
| Director: Max Ophuels
Actors: Jean-louis Barrault, Jean Clarieux, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Fernand Gravey
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 44.99
Buy New: CDN$ 27.21
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Sales Rank: 1496
Format: Black White, Full Screen, Ntsc, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1765
UPC: 715515031424
EAN: 0715515031424
ASIN: B001BEK8BK
Theatrical Release Date: 1950
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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The exquisite circularity of the roundelay has always been an attractive cinematic device, but never has it been used with more delicacy and canny insight than in ILa Ronde/I, Max Ophuels's adaptation of the Arthur Schnitzler play IReigen/I. The camera glides, swirls, and delicately dances around fleeting moments between lovers, from chance meetings and secret trysts, to the sincere but hopeless courtship by a besotted admirer, to the relaxed banter of cuckolding married couples. Ophuels's wry glimpses behind closed doors and pulled curtains are both cynical and sweet, generous of character but suspect of motive. As one scene ends, we waltz along as the characters change partners and dance again and again; we follow streetwalkers and soldiers, courtesans and counts, until we come full circle. Returning to the superb metaphor of the carousel, where dapper Anton Walbrook wanders about as host and commentator (a sort of literary ringmaster, like Peter Ustinov in ILola Montes/I), Ophuels plays at the game of love with a cocked grim and a sly jab, though he never belittles or judges. What could easily have descended into farce is lifted into loving satire by Ophuels's elegant touch and sparkling wit. A huge success in Europe, its continental attitude wasn't embraced by American audiences at the time. But it has come to be regarded one of Ophuels's finest and most beautifully visualized films. Everyone is somebody's fool, and isn't it wonderful? I--Sean Axmaker/I
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