TITLE...........: Lola Montès (1955) STARS...........: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol DIRECTOR........: Max Ophüls WRITERS.........: Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls, Jacques Natanson GENRE...........: Drama, History, Romance TOMATOMETER.....: 82/77 IMDB SCORE......: 7.2 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048308 RUNTIME.........: 1h 55mn SIZE............: 7.75 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x752 ASPECT RATIO....: 2.55:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: French Dolby Digital Plus 3.0 512kbps AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film scholar Susan White SUBTITLES.......: ENG SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-01-02 Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle. Extras • Commentary by film scholar Susan White • Cineaste de notre temps, October 26, 1965 • Max by Marcel • Martine Carol Hair Tests • Rerelease trailer