Prix De Beaute (1930)
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis: Louise Brooks, an international screen icon in the 1920s and early 1930s, stars in this film written by the legendary René Clair (LE MILLION). Brooks plays a Parisian typist who dreams of becoming a star and, hoping to fulfill her dream, enters the "Miss Europe" contest, a contest her fiancé,... Louise Brooks, an international screen icon in the 1920s and early 1930s, stars in this film written by the legendary René Clair (LE MILLION). Brooks plays a Parisian typist who dreams of becoming a star and, hoping to fulfill her dream, enters the "Miss Europe" contest, a contest her fiancé, André, does not want her to enter. Though she knows it may end their relationship, Brooks enters the contest and ends up being offered an opportunity to pursue both modeling and acting. André, indescribably jealous, refuses to allow her to do either, forcing her to choose between him and the career of her dreams. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Louise Brooks
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 7, 2006
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
Audio:
- (unspecified) - French
- Subtitles - English - Optional
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Gallery - 1. Stills
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The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness.
Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through.
Not Louise Brooks's best, but it certainly shows off her considerable talents.
Although beset by a possessive lover, by showbiz exploiters and, in a remarkable funfair scene, by humanity generally, Brooks is so sheerly, dominatingly vivacious that oppression hardly seems an issue.
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