Watching Lola Montes is like a day in a fine museum. There is a beautiful but inert woman - the viewers who called her ''plain" need new glasses - in beautiful garb, expertly framed, captured in spectacular color.
And, like pictures in a museum, there's not much of a story. Just something beautiful to look it. Unless you're mostly making up a story in your head as your gawk. Nominally, it's about a 19th century woman who flirts around Austrian society before ending up in a circus. I gather that a lot of connective tissue in this movie got hacked out after premiere audience were bored to death with the original cut.
I was able to sit through a movie whose story held almost zero interest for me. It was just so wonderful to stare at. Like most pictures a in museums, having gone once, I probably wouldn't go back to stare at them a second time.
And, like pictures in a museum, there's not much of a story. Just something beautiful to look it. Unless you're mostly making up a story in your head as your gawk. Nominally, it's about a 19th century woman who flirts around Austrian society before ending up in a circus. I gather that a lot of connective tissue in this movie got hacked out after premiere audience were bored to death with the original cut.
I was able to sit through a movie whose story held almost zero interest for me. It was just so wonderful to stare at. Like most pictures a in museums, having gone once, I probably wouldn't go back to stare at them a second time.