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A beautiful typist (Louise Brooks) enters the Miss Europe beauty contest, much to the disapproval of her jealous beau (Georges Charlia).

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Michael Atkinson Village Voice 10/31/2007
The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness. Go to Full Review
Time Out 09/30/2006
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. Go to Full Review
Vincent Canby New York Times 09/30/2006
2.5/5
Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through. Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 03/15/2010
Form seeks out beauty and beauty transforms form Go to Full Review
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01/06/2022 One third of Louise Brooks' European tragedy trilogy - a must see film with a must see ending. See more 07/14/2014 I was lucky enough to be able to see the original silent version in Brisbane recently & is cited by many as the much superior version. A simple film that's full of charm & despite its linear story is well written & shot. The story of young French entering a beauty contest for fun & ends up winning. The tension of the film lies in her jealous boyfriend...filled to the brim with creativity & style this is a must see film...Louise Brooks is extraordinary in her last role. See more 10/21/2010 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. See more 02/01/2008 It's like a silent film, only with sound. In other words, it's a regular ol' movie! But a great one, in fact the best French talkie about beauty contests made before World War II. See more 12/20/2007 This is probably the only time in her career Louise Brooks looked wholesome. Worth seeing for her, but there's really nothing to the film. The version I saw had the French dubbed in, but it was still shot like a silent film - interesting to see the way that transition happened. See more 09/08/2007 Less interesting than the two great Brooks-Pabst collaborations, Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl, but worth seeing just because Brooks' career ended far too soon. The closing, with the image of the dead Brooks lying beneath a film projection of her singing and performing, is brilliant. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A beautiful typist (Louise Brooks) enters the Miss Europe beauty contest, much to the disapproval of her jealous beau (Georges Charlia).
Director
Augusto Genina
Producer
Romain Pinès
Screenwriter
René Clair
Distributor
Kino Video
Production Co
Sofar-Film
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 21, 1930, Original
Runtime
1h 18m
Sound Mix
Mono