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Prix De Beaute

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Prix De Beaute (1930)

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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

Director: Augusto Genina
Screenwriter: René Clair, Augusto Genina

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Release:

Mar 7, 2006

[DVD Details]

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.

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Michael Atkinson
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Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through.

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The final scene is a dizzying elegy to Brooks.

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01/28/06
Ed Gonzalez
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Not Louise Brooks's best, but it certainly shows off her considerable talents.

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01/28/06
Ed Gonzalez
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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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this is an excellent film
by: Dr.Caligari 1/28/07

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