Description
_Lola Montès_ is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls’s final film, _Lola Montès_ is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
* Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White
* “Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner,” a 1965 episode of the French television program _Cinéastes de notre temps,_ featuring interviews with many of Ophuls’s collaborators
* _Max by Marcel,_ a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of _Lola Montès_
* Silent footage of actress Martine Carol briefly demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in _Lola Montès_
* Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Gary Giddins
_New cover by David Downton_