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

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

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

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

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

A bodice-ripper invested with the profundity of a Stendhal novel, Lola Montes is also, even more than La Ronde, Ophls's definite commentary on movie-watching.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 20, 2008

Ophls conjures that space into life -- indeed, makes it the very subject of his film -- by means of the most sumptuous stylistic effects imaginable.

| Feb 9, 2006

It is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Ophls makes the story of Lola Montes (Martine Carol), the successful nineteenth-century courtesan (if only so-so Spanish fandango dancer), into a visually dazzling, ironic commentary on celebrity.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2003