Circle of Love

1964 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / History / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 711 711

Plot summary

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

Director

Roger Vadim Photo
Roger Vadim

Top cast

Jane Fonda Photo
Jane Fonda as Sophie
Françoise Dorléac Photo
Françoise Dorléac
Maurice Ronet Photo
Maurice Ronet as Henri
Jean Sorel Photo
Jean Sorel as Le comte
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1018.84 MB
1280*546
French 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 50 min
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1017.75 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 50 min
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1.85 GB
1920*818
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   hr   cz   dk   nl   fi   fr   gr   hu   it   no   pt   ro   ru   es   sv  
24 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds ...
1.84 GB
1920*816
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   hr   cz   dk   nl   fi   fr   gr   hu   it   no   pt   ro   ru   es   sv  
24 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Charlot47

A wonderful collection of beautiful, sexy, so often poignant women!

Updates the 1950 masterpiece to Paris in 1914, shot in rich colour with evocative music, dance and song. A witty script from Jean Anouilh travels through the emotions lightly and, this being France, has slightly weightier moments of literature and philosophy. Since the men are close to being caricature lovers from a sex farce, which some of the time this is, the film belongs to the women. And what a wonderful collection of beautiful, sexy, so often poignant women! Top billing probably has to go to a gorgeous Jane Fonda, then the lover of the director and later his wife, as a young bourgeois wife. But several others play her close: Anna Karina as the housemaid Rose, Catherine Spaak as the mystery girl, Francine Bergé as the actress Maximilienne, and Marie Dubois as the soft-hearted Breton tart. All good roles, taken with gusto and a joy to watch.
Reviewed by joereganjr 8 / 10

Colorful remake of Max Ophuls classic with stellar 60s cast

I too saw the dubbed version when it was playing at the Apollo, a theater on 42nd Street that showed European films that had very limited release. La Ronde or Circle of Love is a visually beautiful film and the scene where Fonda, as the wife, goes to meet her lover in his apartment which has a bird in a cage and Fonda is wearing a hat with a large bird on it is still etched on my memory! Years later I got a VHS of the French version which is a real treasure. Now it is officially out on DVD in Vadim's French version. The cast is a who's who of the 60s French cinema, as was the Ophuls film was (with Signoret, Simone, Daniel Gelan, et al). Chain of Desire is a contemporary remake, and I just saw a play in Chicago by Joe DiPietro with all male cast playing gay characters called F**king Men, really inspired by rather than a re-do. There was an offBroadway production in the late 50's and the actress/director played all the women's parts!
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