La Ronde

The opening with Anton Walbrook is original and priceless. Later in the movie there's a brief shot of Anton holding several yards of celluloid film and a pair of scissors, indicating they had to cut a sex scene. The film was made in 1950 and though it seems tame now, for a few years La Ronde was banned in New York.

25: The young man nervously prepares to kiss the chambermaid by darkening the room and closing blinds. Anton stops a professor from entering the home and interrupting the couple. The birth of something new.

45: The young man and the married woman prepare to make love and we cut to Anton on a carousel hammering something and then ringing a bell... The young man and married woman dance and Anton guides us to another romantic episode involving a young woman and her husband. Now that I'm aware.

-45: Husband and wife Charles and Emma lie in bed, she prefers not to speak with him, he prefers to calculate numbers. Charles says husbands can't always be lovers, that there are calm periods and periods that aren't so calm. Discovery.

60: The husband and a young woman talk in a private dining room. He kisses her and during dessert as they sit on a sofa he tells her he adores her. The lights go out and we infer that they consummate their affections. There's no going back now.

-25: The husband and lover sit in a car. He talks about getting a love nest for the two of them and as he talks we see the lover with another man, a complicated poet, as they enter a private apartment. Eventually we go through several other episodes: the poet loves an actress, the actress loves a count, and the count speaks with the first woman Anton approached after he introduced himself at the beginning, so we go full circle as the title suggested we would. The final turning point.