Carousels, Circuses And Cathedrals: The Film Art of Max Ophuls
[Originally written in November, 2002 for the "Luminous Psyche" film series "The Films of Max Ophuls"]
“But where would people like us get to if we couldn’t get carried away?” –Max Ophuls
When Max Ophuls died in 1957, his friend and collaborator Peter Ustinov (Le Plaisir’s narrator, Lola Montès’s Ringmaster) described the director as “a watchmaker intent [...]