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This Academy Award-nominated French film presents a series of interconnected romantic entanglements. Narrated by an omniscient guide (Anton Walbrook), the movie has a large cast of characters that includes a prostitute (Simone Signoret), who meets up with a soldier (Serge Reggiani), who later becomes involved with a maid (Simone Simon). This merry-go-round continues until it circles back to the beginning, making for an intriguing tale of love and infidelity.

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La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Peter Bradshaw Guardian The film passes like a strange and tantalising dream. Rated: 5/5 Sep 7, 2023 Full Review La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Walter Goodman New York Times The performers are as seductive as the script. It's quite an affaire. Jan 9, 2018 Full Review La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Dan Callahan Slant Magazine Each vignette conforms to a tight, outgrowing pattern, so that they each have equal weight, even if Danielle Darrieux's first segment is the one that lingers in the mind. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 12, 2008 Full Review La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall The script is knowingly meta, while performances ripple with witty banter, deep discussions and lusty chemistry as the narrative circles through romantic entanglements between 10 characters. Rated: 5/5 Sep 12, 2023 Full Review La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Jean-Luc Godard La Gazette du Cinéma Simone Signoret [walks] the streets as though born to it, and it is no fault of hers that she meets two of the worst actors in the French cinema there. Sep 16, 2021 Full Review La Ronde | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Anton Bitel Projected Figures Its whole outlook on human desire is jaded and cynical, and yet the tone is breezily charming throughout. Here, love is bittersweet all round. May 27, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Great.What poetry !Bitter sweet feelngs.Memories, regrets... Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review andrey k Bravo! What a movie! It's a pure delight to watch such French movies. The French people do know how to make love, they are world experts in this matter. Max Ophuls so exquisitely shot his movies, with such extraordinary charm - it envelopes you completely. This movie about love affairs told in short interconnected stories puts its characters in quite familiar situations which play out with a different flavor. All that is happening in the old Vienna, the director's beloved place with its still present code of honor. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Max Ophuls has made a classic with La Ronde because of its unique script structure and always interesting takes on themes such as love, marriage and happiness. Humorously narrated by a man that understands that he is telling a story for a picture which is more than fascinating it is avant-garde. Every new character shows a new perspective and a charm that captures one, but drives away the next. Like the characters the camera sets the mood in each scene creating a fluid and glamorously shot film. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Ophuls is able to recreate much of the romanticism and humor from his other films, but fails to create something distinctively different or better than those previous efforts. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review john m It's sweeping in its own unique way and takes the classic romance genre into interesting ways especially in its format which must have jarring at the time. Ophuls is also a genius with his cinematography and following his characters around a room which works marvelously here. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A fun, memorable film Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Max Ophuls Director Anton Walbrook Raconteur Simone Simon Marie, the Housemaid Daniel Gélin Alfred Serge Reggiani Franz, the Soldier Simone Signoret Leocadie, the Prostitute
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Synopsis This Academy Award-nominated French film presents a series of interconnected romantic entanglements. Narrated by an omniscient guide (Anton Walbrook), the movie has a large cast of characters that includes a prostitute (Simone Signoret), who meets up with a soldier (Serge Reggiani), who later becomes involved with a maid (Simone Simon). This merry-go-round continues until it circles back to the beginning, making for an intriguing tale of love and infidelity.

Director
Max Ophuls

Producer
Ralph Baum, Sacha Gordine

Screenwriter
Jacques Natanson, Max Ophuls, Arthur Schnitzler

Distributor
Criterion Collection

Production Co
Films Sacha Gordine

Genre
Comedy

Original Language
Canadian French

Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 16, 1954, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 14, 2017

Runtime
1h 37m

Sound Mix
Mono
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