About this title: An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series of character vignettes, set in Vienna in the early 1900s and held together by a narrator (Anton Walbrook). As the title implies, both the story and the film's visual motifs are circular. Director Max Ophuls uses an old-fashioned merry-go-round to foreshadow the film's events, in which each segment introduces a new character, who has an affair with a character from the previous scene. The film demands that the audience pay attention to the structure, to the interplay ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515031424
Description: New. 715515031424 Brand new and factory sealed! We sell no bootlegs or imports. Buy with confidence! You WILL receive your item QUICKLY! read more
Description: New. La Ronde [1950]. Connoisseur Video CR 001. * New. Guaranteed availability, condition and fast dispatch. PLEASE NOTE IF PURCHASING A VIDEO: Unless otherwise specified, all our videos are VHS PAL-UK & Europe Format. read more
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Description: Very Good. VHS tape in original cardboard sleeve, new didital audio/video, film to tape transfer, in French with English subtitles. 1950, B&W, 97 mins approx. All proceeds benefit local libraries. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Criterion Collection
Date: 09/16/2008
UPC:715515031424
Description: Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, Simone Simon, Gérard Philipe. New. 1950 Run time: 93. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Description: BRAND NEW. 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-thecentury play La ronde. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, and 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 intricate cinematography. Attributes: BLACK ... read more
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