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La Ronde
FRANCE · 1950

La Ronde

Max Ophüls
sexual desire social class infidelity circular narrative Vienna at the turn of the century
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Synopsis

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

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