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The French Prix de Beaute stars cult figure Louise Brooks as a nondescript typist for a Parisian newspaper. On a whim, Brooks submits her photograph to the Miss France Contest. To everyone's amazement--and her boyfriend Andre's (Georges Charlia) displeasure--she wins the contest, and is sucked into a whirlwind of photo ops and interviews at the Miss Europe contest in Spain. Here she is confronted by Andre, who angrily demands that she give up this foolishness and return home. But the lure of
Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.
Jan 1, 1930 Wide
Mar 7, 2006
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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.
Form seeks out beauty and beauty transforms form
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.
Not Louise Brooks's best, but it certainly shows off her considerable talents.
The final scene is a dizzying elegy to Brooks.
You've seen the themes before in different movies, the story of a girl who wins a beauty contest but her boyfriend doesn't like her being stared at by all those men. She marries him, but misses being a star. The actors are okay, and the story is interesting, but towards the end it feels long.
October 21, 2010Super Reviewer
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