CineAction, March 22nd, 2002
A pity forever! That would have become a huge success," sighed Max Ophuls late in 1950 to the Frankfurter Rundschau's Dieter Fritko about the demise of producer Walter Wanger's Greta Garbo project, a film based on Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais. A year earlier, while in Paris, still waiting to make the film, he had told Paul Carriere of Le Figaro that "Balzac is the most modern writer there can be: he is colorful, ironic, nervous; he is a better psychoanalyst than Freud. I am certain that in bringing one of his works to the screen, one does not make an old-fashioned film, but a film that is ...
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