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