THE FRAME AND THE CIRCLE

 

 

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN 

(1948, Max Ophüls)

“Love, the memory of love, the mortality of love comprise the Ophülsian heritage. Ophüls offers no comforting consolation. There is no escape from the trap of time. This is the ultimate meaning of Ophülsian camera movement: time has no stop…”

A. Sarris

 

“The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.”