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Pandora's Box
Directed by
G.W. Pabst
Not Rated
1929
2h 21m
Drama
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Romance
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7.7
93%
86%
7.5
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The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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Cast of Pandora's Box
Louise Brooks
Lulu
Fritz Kortner
Dr. Ludwig Schön
Francis Lederer
Alwa Schön
Carl Goetz
Schigolch
Krafft-Raschig
Rodrigo Quast
Alice Roberts
Countess Anna Geschwitz
Daisy D'Ora
Charlotte Marie Adelaide von Zarnikow
Gustav Diessl
Jack the Ripper
Michael von Newlinsky
Marquis Casti-Piani
Sig Arno
The Stage Manager
Karl Etlinger
Defense attorney
G.W. Pabst
Director / Screenplay
Ladislaus Vajda
Screenplay
Joseph Fleisler
Writer / Editor
Seymour Nebenzal
Producer
Heinz Landsmann
Producer
Andrej Andrejew
Art Direction
Bohumil Heš
Art Direction / Costume Design
Ernö Metzner
Art Direction
Günther Krampf
Director Of Photography
Pandora's Box Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Audra Schroeder
The way the camera lingers on Brooks is voyeuristic; she, in turn, is oblivious to the fact we're there - the scene where she swings on the arm of muscle-head producer Rodrigo Quast is a classic example.
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
The film is laid out in a strange, semi-successful eight-act structure (just like von Trier's Nymphomaniac), and right from the start, Pabst lets us know this will not be a strident tale of a good girl who falls from grace.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Full of striking imagery which, once seen, will stay with you forever, this is a highly accomplished piece of work which brings together some of the greatest talents of the era.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] ["Pandora's Box"] can be construed as the first international LGBT film ever.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
The movie's horrifying and beautiful conclusion becomes more poignant and powerful with each passing year.
Variety
Variety Staff
Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
One of the classic films of the German silent era.
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
The film...is more interested in the waywardness of almost everyone's longings and in their failures of self-preservation than it is about Lulu's particular immorality or recklessness.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
"Pandora's Box" is a German silent film that Paris Hilton could relate to. She wouldn't like the way it ends, though.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
Give all due credit to Pabst, but Brooks pretty much single-handedly raises Pandora's Box above being just another doomed-bad-girl melodrama.... She makes Lulu unfathomable, a well that always has more to give. Therefore, so is the film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Brooks overwhelms the lens with her magnetic eyes.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
If you've never seen Brooks -- or Pandora's Box -- you've missed one of the most extraordinary personalities and films of the silent movie era.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie remains one of the most insightful depictions of the elemental incongruity between man's nature and woman's.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
2006 is the centennial of actress Louise Brooks, and to honor it, her greatest film, Pandora's Box, is being released in a new 35-mm print in New York's Film Forum before being taken around the country.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
There would never be another Lulu -- nor will there ever be.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
This is a stirring vision of the world gripped by a sinister moral vice--a nosedive into a carnal abyss of despair lined with visionary chiaroscuro sights and thorny mythological references.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
Miss Brooks is attractive and she moves her head and eyes at the proper moment, but whether she is endeavoring to express joy, woe, anger or satisfaction it is often difficult to decide.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This synopsis could apply equally to a great or a laughable film. Brooks makes it a great one.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
One of those revered classics, so steeped in critical hysteria that it's almost heresy to question its greatness.
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