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Keith Phipps's avatar

Is everyone still catching up with this? There's a lot to talk about with this one!

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Molly Haskell's avatar

Wonderful commentary. I think in the strictly ordered haute-bourgeois world that Ophuls shows us, with its "rules of the game," a grand passion is catastrophic -- for all. We almost see the characters, especially Louise, shrink into shadows of themselves before dying.

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