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The Boston Phoenix Review from issue: February 24 - March 2, 2000 | reviews & features | by movie | by theater | film specials | hot links | Movies to the Max The MFA's Ophuls retrospective defines film by Chris Fujiwara NINE FILMS BY MAX OPHULS, At the Museum of Fine Arts, March 2 through 18. Everyone who's in love with movies loves Max Ophuls. Detractors can be found for almost any other ...

Max Ophuls LE PLAISIR The director Max Ophuls (Max Oppenheimer) was born in 1902 in Sarrebruck into a family of industrialists. He decided against joining the family business and threw himself into theater criticism. After ten intense years in the world of theater that made him one of the most celebrated travelling directors in Germany (he directed plays by Shakespeare, Moliere, Schiller, ...