The most exciting film of the year. The CinemaScope, the color, the construction of the script, the dialogue here undergoes such a revolutionary treatment that Lola Montes's influence will be visible in many films during the years to come.

| May 6, 2022

Lola Montes is a lovely film. One which disappointed me when I first saw it, but to which I've returned time and again with pleasure and a growing respect.

| Jan 16, 2020

A love affair on wheels is a nice idea but this over-decorated vehicle is the hub for eight minor events which are nothing but crazy make-up, improbability, and an ordeal of graceless acting.

| Jun 18, 2019

This exacting and sumptuous restoration of Max Ophls's last film, from 1955, recovers not just the movie's look but also its meaning.

| Feb 10, 2014

"...lingers as a sensational fever dream."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 12, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The net result is pure Ophuls, his signature recognizable in nearly every scene and, despite its very poor initial reception, one hell of a movie.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 1, 2010

as Lola, Martine Carol should compel our attention, but instead merely toys with it

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 2, 2010

Ophuls... contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation... with offstage moments of tender candor and poignant, poetic flashbacks

| Feb 17, 2010

The matters that made the real Lola an extraordinary woman are omitted completely; we are given only the picture of a woman turned to sexual adventuring by her mother's callousness.

| May 27, 2009

Watch Lola Montes and you may never watch a movie the same way again.

| Nov 21, 2008

Lola Montes is mainly a triumph of vibrancy and metaphor. Nonetheless it's quite an experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 10, 2008

Seen on a big screen, this is a movie to get drunk on.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 31, 2008

With all due respect to film critic Andrew Sarris, Max Ophls' legendary Lola Monts is not 'the greatest film ever made.'

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2008

Max Ophls' 1955 masterpiece gets a superb restoration.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 10, 2008

In some odd way, the huge production scale and marvelous widescreen color scheme make Lola Monts seem more distant and artificial than Ophls' smaller-scale black-and-white films.

| Oct 10, 2008

Some fetching period observation appears from time to time, but life is rarely breathed into this frilly opus.

| Oct 8, 2008

A baroque masterpiece by Max Ophuls, his last film (1955) and his only work in color and wide-screen.

| Oct 8, 2008

I recommend Lola Monts wholeheartedly both for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2008