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Lola Montès

1955 · 116 min · Director: Max Ophüls ★ IMDb 7.2 · 6,764 ratings

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Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

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Lola Montès (1955) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 30%, Empathy 25%, Awe 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Empathy, Awe. Genres: Drama, Romance, History. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Empathy and Awe. Its IMDb rating of 7.2/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 71/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Sympathy
  • Sadness
  • Tension

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Sympathy

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Humor

Sympathy
Sadness
Tension
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 28 %, then rises around 78 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySympathySadnessTension
2.5 %≈ 3′Curiosity50 %30 %17 %23 %
7.5 %≈ 9′Curiosity49 %34 %24 %23 %
12.5 %≈ 15′Sadness49 %35 %38 %20 %
17.5 %≈ 20′Sadness50 %39 %44 %16 %
22.5 %≈ 26′Sympathy45 %40 %35 %20 %
27.5 %≈ 32′Sympathy40 %34 %23 %29 %
32.5 %≈ 38′Curiosity41 %31 %18 %34 %
37.5 %≈ 44′Sympathy44 %36 %20 %36 %
42.5 %≈ 49′Sympathy48 %41 %23 %39 %
47.5 %≈ 55′Curiosity53 %41 %23 %44 %
52.5 %≈ 61′Tension51 %38 %23 %44 %
57.5 %≈ 67′Curiosity45 %30 %18 %33 %
62.5 %≈ 73′Humor45 %24 %11 %23 %
67.5 %≈ 78′Humor48 %20 %10 %18 %
72.5 %≈ 84′Humor50 %20 %14 %25 %
77.5 %≈ 90′Tension60 %32 %26 %51 %
82.5 %≈ 96′Tension68 %46 %36 %63 %
87.5 %≈ 102′Sympathy70 %59 %49 %55 %
92.5 %≈ 107′Sadness80 %76 %69 %61 %
97.5 %≈ 113′Sympathy87 %85 %75 %70 %
Oedipus

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

MC
Martine Carol

HG
Henri Guisol

LD
Lise Delamare

OW
Oskar Werner

WQ
Will Quadflieg

HM
Héléna Manson

GD
Germaine Delbat

Stewardess

CE
Carl Esmond

Doctor

JF
Jacques Fayet

Steward

FD
Friedrich Domin

Circus Manager

WF
Werner Finck

Wisböck, the Artist

ID
Ivan Desny

Lieutenant Thomas James

BA
Béatrice Arnac

Circus Rider (uncredited)

MB
Maurice Barnay

(uncredited)

CB
Charles Bayard

Man in the Box (uncredited)

AB
Ady Berber

Bulgakov (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Max Ophüls
Written by
Annette Wademant, Max Ophüls, Jacques Laurent, Jacques Natanson, Franz Geiger
Type
Movies
Released
1955
Runtime
116 min
Country
France, Germany
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.2 · 6,764 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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