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7.2/10
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When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Héléna Manson
- Lieutenant James' Sister
- (as Helena Manson)
Carl Esmond
- Doctor
- (as Willy Eichberger)
Béatrice Arnac
- Circus Rider
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Max Ophüls' final movie, and his only movie in color.
- GoofsWhen the Circus Master first tries to recruit Lola, he lists San Francisco as an important North American city, and includes Buffalo Bill in a list of major circus figures. This scene is set shortly before Montez left for Bavaria, so it must be late 1845 or early 1846. San Francisco was called Yerba Buena until 1847, and the name Buffalo Bill was first applied in the 1860s to Buffalo Bill Cody, who was born in 1846.
- Quotes
Lola Montes: When a man is attractive, and you are terribly attractive, it's easy to yield, to hold on, to go almost too far. Now we are embarrassed by all those follies. We are starting to watch each other. We are trying to find each other again, to recognize ourselves, and our answers become questions.
- Alternate versionsThe film was shot in three language versions: German, French and English. There was a fourth version, silent, used as a working copy; this was eventually found at the Luxembourg Cinematheque.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)
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Spectacularly Dull
If a film were purely spectacle and music, I would give this a 10. Unfortunately, the lack of charisma of the principle actress makes it hard to sit through. It is a series of vignettes offered to attendees of a circus where Miss Montes answers questions for a quarter and lets her hand be kissed for a dollar (the French exchange rate comes into play, of course). The movie is nice to look at with rich colors and interesting circus scenes. I wonder if the film has been worked on because it literally glows. It's the self importance of Carol and the tiresome people who seem to bring it down a bit. I never felt sympathy for her character; her arbitrariness just lost me. Franz Liszt looks like the second place winner in a Fabio look-alike contest. Then we are to feel great sorrow for her because she needs to stay in a dormitory for a short time on an ocean voyage. Because she feels slighted, she begins to get this crust about her and begin to use people. She is a courtesan in the true sense. Carol just doesn't work. Now Marlene Dietrich. There you go. Ophuls is interesting and this was his last film. It's certainly eye candy.
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- Also known as
- The Sins of Lola Montes
- Filming locations
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- Budget
- FRF 650,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $120,306
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,569
- Oct 12, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $303,175
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.55 : 1
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