Circles of Desire: Alan Williams on Max Ophuls’ La Ronde
CIRCLES OF DESIRE: ALAN WILLIAMS ON MAX OPHULS’ LA RONDE is a 35-minute video interview with film scholar Alan Williams, a professor of French at Rutgers University and author of Max Ophuls and the Cinema of Desire and Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking. Williams discusses the production history of LA RONDE (1950), compares the film and the play by Arthur Schnitzler on which it is based, touches on Ophuls’ techniques with the camera and editing, and gives close visual and thematic analysis to several scenes.
PUBLISHED ON THE FOLLOWING DVDS:
La Ronde (AUS)La Ronde (Criterion)
La Ronde (UK)