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Die Büchse Der Pandora (INTAll-STF)
Location
Main screening room
Date
June 4th, 2022
Duration
134 min
Cycle
Pabst : Masks and Solidarities

On the initiative of the magazine Panorama-cinéma and in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, we present a substantial cycle of around twenty screenings dedicated to the filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In addition to his legendary silent films (Loulou, La rue sans joie) and some new restorations, we have also unearthed several rarely shown films from our collections which testify to the richness of an all-out filmography, accompanying the tribulations of his time, for better or for worse. This major cycle is accompanied by a book co-published with Panorama-cinema, with the support of the Goethe-Institut.

At the piano : Gabriel Thibaudeau

Pandora's Box
Directed by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Language
German intertitles, French subtitles
Actors
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Carl Goetz
Origins
Germany
Duration
115 min
Genre
Silent, Drama
Format
Digital
Synopsis

The dancer Loulou marries a newspaper magnate, kills him by mistake and has to run away with friends. Louise Brooks' most famous role.

Pandora's Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885 - 1967) was an Austrian director, screenwriter and producer. He started out as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers in the Weimar Republic.

(Wikipedia)

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Loulou by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

From its first to its last image, this film magnifies the disturbing, radiant, explosive presence of a woman who lives only for love. Loulou is flame and desire, incendiary sensuality. Loulou is triumphant freedom, the negation of the Christian notion of sin, the destruction of taboos.
Borde, Buache et Courtade, 1965

Parler du film, c'est parler de Louise Brooks, et inversement. Ce qui ne dévalorise en rien le travail de Pabst mais constitue au contraire une preuve de sa réussite. Car le sujet de Loulou-le film se confond avec Loulou-le personnage lui-même inséparable de Louise Brooks-la femme et actrice.

  • Libération, 1997
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