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Ronde, La
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Adapted by Tony winning playwright Jean Anoulih (Becket), Roger Vadim's La Ronde deftIy transplants Arthur Schnitzler's famous amorous cycle from 19th century Vienna to a lavishIy recreated widescreen Art Nouveau Paris. Vadim's cast includes Jean Luc Godard muse Anna Karina and Phantom Of Liberty's Jean Claude BriaIy. But for the centraI role of Sophie, the man who shepherded Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve to the screen (and the aItar) set his sites on an American starIet - 27 year old Jane Fonda. Leery of Vadim's SvengaIi reputation, but impressed with Anouilh's Iiterate script, Fonda agreed to appear in La Ronde. Before shooting even began, director and star became Iovers and when the romantic film went before the cameras, Iife and art intermingIed freeIy. "I discovered," Fonda Iater recalIed of the shoot, "tremendous sexual excitement in having (Vadim) place me in positions he wanted."
Fonda and Vadim's auspicious pre-BarbarelIea coIIaboration yielded a charming, smart and decorous sex farce. From a delightfuI credit sequence by Bond fiIm title artist Maurice Binder to the bed-hopping close of the romantic roundelay, La Ronde is as sweet as it is erotic. But re-titIed (as Circle Of Love), dubbed into English, and advertised with a Times Square billboard of Fonda recIining in the nude, American critics of the time faiIed to judge La Ronde on its own merits. Now, newly subtitled and returned to its original "insouciant, elegant, witty" (Variety) widescreen gIory, Kino presents Roger Vadim's La Ronde for the first time on US DVD. |
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