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PANDORA’S BOX
Germany, 1929
Directed by G.W. Pabst
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Art Direction by Andrei Andreiev, Gottlieb Hesch
Silent, with original musical soundtrack
Approx. 141 mins. DCP.
Sex and the City—Berlin, 1928: in the wake of Louise Brooks’ patent leather-bobbed Lulu, men set up expensive love nests, ruin themselves gambling, commit brutal murders, and kill themselves; as she moves from kept woman, headlining showgirl, lesbian love interest, widow in mourning, fugitive from the law, and possible sex slave, amid a bustling backdrop of Weimar Germany.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“The archetype of voracious destructive women.”
– Pauline Kael
“ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE, ECSTATIC, IMPETUOUS AND RECKLESS PERFORMANCES ANYONE HAD EVER GIVEN ON SCREEN! [Brooks] makes Marlene Dietrich in THE BLUE ANGEL seem coy and calculated… Brooks is a flame fluttering in the wind of her own breath. She is danger as it had not been seen or felt before.”
– David Thomson, Moments That Made the Movies