Random Acts of Cinema

443 - La Ronde (1950)

Random Acts of Cinema · Aug 22, 2022 · 1h 23m

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La Ronde
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Max Ophüls' La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls' La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls' La Ronde presents a world… If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and and reviewing Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala (1990).

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