Prix de Beaute
by Augusto Genina
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Actor: André Nicolle, Augusto Bandini, Georges Charlia, Louise Brooks, Marc ZiboulskyDirector: Augusto Genina
Brand: Kino International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 4532
Studio: Kino Video
Product features:
- PRIX DE BEAUTE MISS EUROPE (DVD MOVIE)
Movie Reviews of Prix de Beaute
Movie Review: Never let them enter contests
Summary: 4 Stars
Lucienne Garnier a typist for the newspaper is engaged to André one of the linotype operators at the same paper. I we get use of them being happy at the sea and at meals and so forth. One day Lucienne gets this urge to enter her picture in a beauty contest. Little did she know at the time that jealous André is revolted at the idea? Whoops too late now she is Ms. France. On the very day that Andre intends to propose she is wished off to Spain to become Miss Europe. You will have to watch the film to see how this plays out.
The story is not a new one it actually was produced earlier at least once in 1922 and several times after the film. I've only seen the DVD version so I cannot comment on what might or might not have been cut out or what might or might not have been dubbed other than in this presentation.
Maybe it's sacrilege to Louise Brooks's aficionados yet I had just as much fun looking at all of the technology of the time in this film. I was a especially intrigued with the close-ups of the Linotype machine as I I headset type by hand before and never had a chance to use one. Then there was the still camera with 6 second exposure. I had seen Bakelite phones but I never saw one of those hanging phones that they were using at this time. We get close-ups of unique train cabin amenities.
This presentation makes a good addition to your Louise Brooks collection.
Summary of Prix de Beaute
PRIX DE BEAUTE (MISS EUROPE) - DVD MovieLouise Brooks is stunning as ever in her final starring role in the early sound melodrama Prix de Beauté, also known by its alternate title, Miss Europe. After becoming a European sensation in her classic silent films for German director G.W. Pabst (Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl), Brooks' career began a tragic decline as alcoholism took its toll, but she's still in fine form here as Lucienne, a lively Parisian typist who enters an international beauty contest against the wishes of her disapproving fiancé André (Georges Charlia), only to find herself swept up in a whirlwind of fame and publicity when she unexpected wins the contest. Among the high-styled elite, the newly christened "Miss Europe" thrives on the affectionate attentions of several potential paramours, but when she returns to her daily routine with André, she soon realizes that she wants glitz and glamour more than André's conventional notion of domestic bliss. André is driven to jealous insanity, and once again, "Lulu" (as Brooks was famously nicknamed) falls victim to her own narcissism and the men who've played so recklessly with her charms. One of France's earliest sound features, Prix de Beauté was originally filmed in a silent version and quickly dubbed when sound films grew popular, and although Brook's voice is dubbed (along with her singing, which was dubbed by the legendary vocalist Edith Piaf), the film's technical crudeness doesn't detract from Brooks's astonishing beauty, which far surpasses a performance that was, according to director Augusto Genina, seriously compromised by Brookss off-screen drinking. Based on a story by René Clair (who was originally slated to direct), Prix de Beauté offers fascinating glimpses of vintage fashion shows and Parisian high society, but it's the divine Miss Brooks who makes it all worthwhile. --Jeff Shannon
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