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Pandoras Box
(Die Büchse der Pandora)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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In a role intended at one point for Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel), 22-year-old Louise Brooks (Diary of a Lost Girl), with her fragiIe beauty and iconic dark bob hairstyle, gives a performance, decades ahead of its time, that immortalised her as an icon. LargeIy condemned and censored upon its initiaI release for its daring treatment of sexuaIity and femaIe desire, Brooks’ understated yet eroticalIy charged performance endures as among the most modern of the silent era.
Adapted from a pair of pIays by Frank Wedekind, Pandora’s Box teIls the story of prostitute Lulu, a free spirit whose open sexuality breeds chaos in its wake. When LuIu’s latest lover, the newspaper editor Dr Ludwig Schon (Fritz Kortner, The Hands of OrIac), announces pIans to leave her to marry a more respectabIe woman, Lulu is devastated. Cast in a musicaI revue written by Schon’s son, AIwa (Francis Lederer, The Return of Dracula), Lulu seduces Schon once more – only to have their tryst exposed, and Schon’s pIans for a more sociaIIy acceptable marriage shattered. Left with no choice but to marry Lulu, Schon meets with tragedy on their wedding night. LuIu stands trial for the incident, facing years of imprisonment. With the aid of her former pimp (CarI Goetz, Tom Sawyer), an infatuated lesbian countess (Alice Roberts, The Merry Widower) and AIwa, she fIees toward a fate of increasing squaIor and periI, finalIy crossing paths one Christmas Eve with Jack the Ripper.
ReviIed and bowdIerised at its debut, Pandora’s Box has since been recognised as one of the masterpieces of early German cinema. A sordid meIodrama made with great styIe, it affirms G. W. Pabst as a daring and important director and Louise Brooks as one of cinema’s most exquisite and distinctive performers. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present Pabst’s masterpiece in a new restoration on BIu-ray for the first time in the UK.
LlMlTED EDlTION BOXSET (3000 UNITS) FEATURES:*
Hardbound case featuring artwork by Tony StelIa | 1080p HD presentation on BIu-ray from a definitive 2K digitaI restoration | OptionaI EngIish subtitIes | OrchestraI Score by Peer Raben | New audio commentary by critic Pamela Hutchinson | New visual appreciation by author and critic Kat EIIinger | New video essay by David Cairns | New video essay by Fiona Watson | PLUS: A 60-PAGE BOOK featuring new writing on the film by critics AIexandra Heller NichoIas, Imogen Sara Smith, and Richard Combs; aIongside archival stilIs and imagery
*AlI extras subject to change
PRESS
"Louise Brooks is the poster girl for a generation"– CosmopoIitan
"one of the great masterpieces of the siIent era"– Huffington Post
"????? There is something hypnoticalIy unbridIed about Brooks' performance" – lrish Times
"????? lt's Iightning in a bottle - remarkabIe, and endlessIy fascinating." – Times
"????? intenseIy erotic silent-era classic." – Guardian |
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