Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

The word "tone" is much bandied about by critics, myself included. We speak of a film as being " inconsistent in tone ...

Pleasure, as the poets never tire of telling us, is inextricable from pain.   Le Plaisir is an anthology film dramatizing three stories b...

Love supposedly makes the world go around, but in La Ronde it's sex that provides the spin. Ophuls and his fellow screenwriter, Jacqu...

A commercial disaster when it was released, Ophuls's opulent and expensive last film was heavily cut in a effort to salvage it, and af...