Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl
by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

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Actor: Andr? Roanne, Fritz Rasp, Josef Rovensk?, Louise Brooks, Vera Pawlowa
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Producer: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Producer: Jack White
Writer: Ernest Pagano
Writer: Jack Townley
Writer: Margarete B?hme
Writer: Rudolf Leonhardt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video

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Movie Review: Decadent and Loving It in Germany
Summary: 4 Stars

I was very surprised by how enjoyable this was. I'm not even a silent film buff and saw Chaplin's The Gold Rush when I was a kid and couldn't stand it. The plot moves at a brisk pace, and the sadism in this film is downright funny. The acting throughout is excellent, and there's a tall completely bald actor who has some very amusing scenes - he puts on lipstick, for example. Well portrayed characters and a good plot make this movie still vibrant so many years later.

That said, of course the star of the show is Louise Brooks. Attention never wanders when she's on-screen. Her partnership with German director, G.W.Pabst, sealed their places in film history.

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Together with Pandora's Box (1928), Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent personality and a beauty unparalleled in screen history" (Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By). Brooks, in a delicately restrained performance, plays the na?ve daughter of a prosperous pharmacist. Shy and faunlike, the wide-eyed innocent is made pregnant by her father's young assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she eventually escapes. Penniless and homeless, she is directed to a brothel where she becomes liberated and lives for the moment with radiant physical abandon. This Kino on DVD version of Diary of a Lost Girl has been mastered from a new restoration of the film, made by the Bologna Cinematheque, which adds approximately seven minutes of previously censored footage never seen in the United States. An evocative new score has been added by Joseph Turrin.

The mystique and stunning beauty of Louise Brooks are on glorious display in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Brooks's second historic collaboration (after Pandora's Box) with director G.W. Pabst. In a restrained performance that a lesser actress would've taken over the top, Brooks strikes a resonant note of innocence, tenacity, and worldliness as Thymian, the idealistic daughter of an unscrupulous pharmacist, who is raped by her father's lecherous assistant. Forced to leave her child with a midwife, she escapes from a hellish reform school and is drawn into a brothel as if her fate were predetermined. Pabst tells her story (from Margurethe Bohme's novel) with lurid flourishes, especially in his encouragement of leering, grotesque performances from Thymian's ruthless exploiters. Mature even by modern standards, this lurid melodrama spans a full spectrum of emotions, expressed with subtle nuance by Brooks, who casts her spell in close-ups that will take your breath away. --Jeff Shannon

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