Movie Description The final collaboration, following PANDORA'S BOX, between G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks, the American silent film star whose look defined the Jazz Age, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL is a similarly lurid tale of a young woman's life. Brooks stars as Thymiane, a young girl life whose life collapses when she is raped and made pregnant by her father's young assistant. After a reform school escape she ends up in a brothel, which, ironically, leads her to a salvation of sorts. Silent film with piano and jazz ensemble score.
| Details | | Edition: | Restored Version; Contains 16 Minutes of Restored Footage |
Notes A silent film.
The print used for the Kino VHS version was restored by Connaissance du Cinema, Paris 1983., DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame Audio: Stereo Additional Release Material: Bonus Short - 1. "Windy Riley Goes to Hollywood" Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
Editorial Reviews "...Brooks' looks and performance are so luminous and, by today's standards, so contemporary that her failure to make it in talkies continues to confound..." USA Today - Mike Clark (11/30/2001)
"With their remarkable rapport, Brooks and Pabst turned a Victorian tale into a timeless story of hypocrisy forgiven and of good triumphant over evil." Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (01/22/2004)
"[W]holly convincing on screen...thanks to the psychological acuity of Pabst's direction, Brooks' luminous presence and a startlingly frank examination of sexual mores in Weimar Germany..." Sight and Sound - Michael Brooke (07/01/2007)
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