Notes on…

Lola Montès(1955)

Dir. Directed by Max Ophüls


You can't dance. But you know how to trigger a scandal, excite the audience… In the entire world, scandal means money; and in America, it has no limits.

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Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.