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7pm
Valse Brillante De Chopin
Max Ophuls, 5 mins, 1936
The French music critic Emile Vuillermoz set up a production company in Lyon
dedicated to the promotion of classical music, which commissioned a series of short films entitled Cinèphonies. This is one of two directed by Ophuls.
7.05pm
Madame de...
Max Ophuls, 102 mins, 1953
Ophuls' "dazzling visual symphony" (Georges Sadoul) is an elegant social comedy with ultimately tragic dimensions, focusing on the circular passage of a pair of earrings. Turn-of-the-century Europe is the ultimately melancholy setting for a complex play of eternal return, personalised memory, liquid camerawork and social dissection that is the quintessence of the director's greatest work.
9pm
The Exile
Max Ophuls, 95 mins, 1947
Ophuls' rarely screened, first Hollywood film is a sublime portrayal of the exiled King of England Charles II, in hiding in Holland. Deftly eluding his enemies with his agility and thrilling swordplay, he is eventually summoned back to the throne. Making the film whilst he himself was in exile, Ophuls lends his unmistakable cinematic flair to an established genre and the film delivers with moments of great daring, comedy and tenderness.
