thewisecrackingtwenties: Prix de Beauté (1930) directed by Augusto Genina ICO
thewisecrackingtwenties: Prix de Beauté (1930) directed by Augusto Genina ICONIC death scene.Not from the 1920s, but isn’t Louise Brooks, flapper extraordinaire, pure 1920s?! This film was the third and last masterpiece of her trilogy - starting with Pandora`s Box (1929) and Diary of a lost Girl (1929) both by Pabst- before falling gradually -and later on, brutally- into obscurity. An early french talkie, Prix de Beauté is so primitive in sound techniques that is just a dubbed silent film. The final scene, in which Lucienne (Brooks) dies is one of the most iconic of all times! No wonder that when Louise Brooks was rediscovered decades after she was pronounced: “There is no Garbo, there is no Dietrich, there is only Louise Brooks”Lucienne, a former nobody, is now Miss Europe and is all wrapped up in fur watching a short film in which she sings. She`s famous now. The jealous ex-boyfriend sneaks in and shoots her while she is joyusly watching herself, and she dies, beautifully, while her celluloid self kept on singing on the screen. Black and White magick ladies and gentlemen! -- source link