Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world governed by the routines, negotiations, and hypocrisies of desire. Behaviors argued as so central to human experience, that this ensemble film, set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, exposes how the hidden mechanisms of storytelling reenforce and perpetuate the forever-repeating patterns of conquest and betrayal. The narratives are found in poetry, plays, and even in how Max Ophüls’ La Ronde presents a world…   If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and and reviewing Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1990).