#La Ronde

[theconstantnymph]

La ronde, 1964

[sonimage1965]

Jane Fonda

1964

[reorientingtothexdaylight]

"- Bon allez, on va danser ! On a pas dansé de la soirée ensemble ! - Je sais pas danser ! Elise, je sais pas danser. - Mais si vous savez danser. Je ne quitte pas cet endroit sans avoir danser avec vous, César. Ah, danse avec nous ! Et si on faisait une ronde ? On fait jamais de ronde. - Elle a raison, on fait jamais de ronde." Elise, César et Arthur - César Wagner, Saison 1 Episode 8

[anciencimetiere]

Gérard Philipe and Simone Signoret in La ronde (1950) by Max Ophüls.

[chicinsilk]

Thursday January 21, 1965, actress Jane Fonda, in a Chanel suit at the Savoy Hotel in London on the occasion of the promotion of her latest film, "Circle of Love" aka La Ronde (original French title), directed by Roger Vadim.

Jeudi 21 janvier 1965, l'actrice Jane Fonda, en tailleur Chanel à l'hôtel Savoy à Londres à l'occasion de la promotion de son dernier film, " Circle of Love" aka La Ronde (titre français original), réalisé par Roger Vadim. (Photo by Carl Bruin/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

[xxmariiixx]

Laronde/six flags!!! 🌺

Weather was so hot i thought i was gonna die 😭

Got sunburnt too 😔

[celinexck]

Wish I could watch fireworks for a living

[do-you-know-this-play]

[toiletdestroyer3415]

i have obtained two magical artifacts from the La Ronde gift shop after having one heck of a day over there

the dino water wiggler of unhanding and the sea creature putty of whale summoning

also it looks cool in the dark when you shine a light through it

im sooo financially responsible (lie)

[letterboxd-loggd]

Circle of Love (La Ronde) (1964) Roger Vadim

January 15th 2023

[byneddiedingo]

Gérard Philipe in La Ronde (Max Ophüls, 1950)

Cast: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gëlin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe. Screenplay: Jacques Natason, Max Ophüls, based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler. Cinematography: Christian Matras. Production design: Jean d’Eaubonne. Film editing: Léonide Azar. Music: Oscar Straus. 

Love supposedly makes the world go around, but in La Ronde it's sex that provides the spin. Max Ophüls and his fellow screenwriter, Jacques Natanson, put us in the hands of a narrator (Anton Walbrook) who facilitates the couplings of the various characters, beginning with a prostitute and a soldier, followed by the soldier's liaison with a chambermaid, her fling with the young man for whom she works, his with a married woman, and so on, until the merry-go-round (a literal presence on the screen) brings us back again to the prostitute. It's an ingenious business, first devised for the stage by the Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 -- one reason why the film takes place in Vienna in 1900. At its best, La Ronde is a showcase for some lovely performances, including Walbrook's, but also those of Simone Signoret as the prostitute, Simone Simon as the chambermaid, Danielle Darrieux as the married woman, and, later in the circle dance, Jean-Louis Barrault as a pretentious poet. There are some witty moments: When one of the characters experiences erectile dysfunction, the merry-go-round breaks down and the narrator-facilitator is forced to repair it. In 1950, the movie taught American audiences who got a chance to see it what they were missing because of the hidebound Production Code. The Academy, whose members often chafed against the Code, honored it with two Oscar nominations: Ophüls and Natanson for their screenplay and Jean d'Eaubonne for art direction. Ophüls has a little fun with the censors, too, when one very close encounter is interrupted by the narrator seizing the film and cutting a section from it. Our age, haunted by various STD's, might take a darker view of the film's blithe copulation, which is why, I think, Ophüls's film seems a little hollow: too much style, not enough substance. Even in its day, La Ronde was little more than a charming anachronism, a fantasia about a world that never was, and if it had been, would have been swept away by two World Wars.

[theconstantnymph]

La ronde, 1964

[vsthepomegranate]

Chain of Desire (1992)

by Temístocles López

[betterinthedarkblog]

“There’s only one happiness. Finding someone who loves you.”

— Arthur Schnitzler, LA RONDE

[libertea-and-icedcoffee]

only the OG Will get it

[ulrichgebert]

Unter der kompetenten Leitung der Herren Ophüls und Walbrook dreht sich Schnitzlers Reigen ganz besonders schön, nur zwischen dem jungen Herrn und der verheirateten Frau hapert es kurz. Das war jetzt auch mal wieder nötig.