1925 · drama · silent · social
The Joyless Street
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst2h 35m1925
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Our read: The Joyless Street (1925) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · silent · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / silent, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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