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Lola Montès
Title:
Lola Montès
Uniform Title:
Lola Montès (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9781604652321
Publication Information:
Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2009
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : portraits ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.

Based on the novel by Cécil Saint-Laurent.

Special features: Disc one: Audio commentary featuring film scholar Susan White. Disc two: "Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner:" a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls's collaborators; "Max by Marcel:" a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montès; "Martine Carole hair tests" Martine Carol demonstrating the various hairstyles in Lola Montés; Re-release trailer. Booklet: "Loving Lola" essay by critic Gary Giddins.
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. Supplements.
Summary:
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.55:1) ASPECT RATIO, DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO SOUND (FRENCH), DUAL LAYER, NTSC.
Language Note:
IN FRENCH DIALOGUE; WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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