1929 · drama · noir · german
Pandora's Box
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst2h 21m1929
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Our read: Pandora's Box (1929) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · noir · german entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / noir, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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