Word: rondee
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THESE DAYS comedies of manners are out of favor, especially those that are deliberately artificial. Jules and Jim gets by because of its apparent faithfulness to lifelike detail and incident. But Truffaut's favorite pastime is to manipulate his audiences. Forcing us to identify with his characters, he hides an...
The same inventiveness gives the film a flavor unique in Ophuls. In general his heavily decorated background settings and firmly placed foreground objects delimit an empty mid-ground where his characters move. Despite his fluid camera motions this spatial plan often imposes upon his characters, notably in Letter from an...
La Ronde's final fascination lies in the terms on which Ophuls offers his drama to us. His other films enlarge the audience's moral awareness of its experience by developing the implications of their styles. Our enjoyment of Madame de... shifts toward regret when we see that its sweeping...
La Ronde is hardly so dark. In large part it simply invites its audience to watch a divertissement. But Anton Walbrook's introduction mentions our "curiosity...people want to see all sides of life." This "curiosity" makes us follow the affairs of Ophuls' characters and sets up the final reversal...
The narrative is more pattern than plot. In a train compartment, a student named Hans (Erik Wedersoe) eyes a blonde dancer (Harriet Andersson) and dreams of his fiancee and his mistress. Suddenly, scenes of the train's pistons pounding are intercut. A title flashes "Could anything be more erotic...