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Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst
Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure A titan of silent cinema, Austrian director GW Pabst left behind a treasure trove of classics. Working in Weimar Germany, Pabst gave Greta Garbo her second ever lead role in The Joyless Street (1925), and propelled Louise Brooks to international stardom with Pandora’s Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). Attentive to the marginalised elements of society, these early triumphs exemplified the kind of free-spirited film-making that flourished before the rise of the Nazi regime. Faced with this colossal legacy, Angela Christlieb’s probing documentary takes a more winding path through Pabst’s personal archive. Through intimate letters, family albums, and interviews with his descendants, the film foregrounds the man behind the images, while bringing another
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Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure A titan of silent cinema, Austrian director GW Pabst left behind a treasure trove of classics. Working in Weimar Germany, Pabst gave Greta Garbo her second ever lead role in The Joyless Street (1925), and propelled Louise Brooks to international stardom with Pandora’s Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). Attentive to the marginalised elements of society, these early triumphs exemplified the kind of free-spirited film-making that flourished before the rise of the Nazi regime. Faced with this colossal legacy, Angela Christlieb’s probing documentary takes a more winding path through Pabst’s personal archive. Through intimate letters, family albums, and interviews with his descendants, the film foregrounds the man behind the images, while bringing another
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst, Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure A titan of silent cinema, Austrian director GW Pabst left behind a treasure trove of classics. Working in Weimar Germany, Pabst gave Greta Garbo her second ever lead role in The Joyless Street (1925), and propelled Louise Brooks to international stardom with Pandora’s Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). Attentive to the marginalised elements of society, these early triumphs exemplified the kind of free-spirited film-making that flourished before the rise of the Nazi regime. Faced with this colossal legacy, Angela Christlieb’s probing documentary takes a more winding path through Pabst’s personal archive. Through intimate letters, family albums, and interviews with his descendants, the film foregrounds the man behind the images, while bringing another
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