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markalexandrino
IMDb member since November 2005
Actor and Filmmaker based in Alberta, Canada.
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Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)
On point
20 November 2005 - 6 out of 7 users found this review helpful.
Besides the grim fatalist moral lesson, the film is lacking Expressionist ideals, and is more in tune with later Weimar cinema. The fact that it has a female lead certainly separates it from the classic Expressionist works. And shadowing and landscape techniques are much more modernized reflecting Weimar's embrace of technology and immersion into consumer culture. Even today, there are few female actors that represent such a powerful will and dominant presence as Louise Brooks did in her masterful performance. The film was not very popular at its time of production and I wonder how much that has to do with this strong female presence.
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