Lost in Criterion

Spine 433: La Ronde

Lost in Criterion · Mar 12, 2021 · 1h 21m

The movie

La Ronde
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We kick off a string of Max Ophüls films with a sex comedy starring a narrator who may or may not be a metaphor for syphilis? La Ronde is based on an 1897 play by Arthur Schnitzler that was actively suppressed first because it was just too sexy for the general public, and then by the author himself once political backlash against the play morphed into antisemitism because everything is bad. Except this movie. This movie is pretty dang fun.

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