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LOLA MONTES

By Max OPHULS

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Drama - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Max OPHULS
- Cast
- Martine CAROL, Peter USTINOV
- Synopsis
- Reduced to a state the total degeneration, Lola Montès, under the big top of a gigantic circus, is forced to reinact her dramatic past. The life story of a 19th century courtesan told via flashbacks while being exhibited in a stylised circus somewhere in America. Lola Montes pantomimes her own image, caught between being a caged animal and a femme fatale, she travels around the world creating a caricature of her decline until the tragic conclusion during a show : a leap into the void...