Louise Brooks’ story is a tragic one. The 1906 born actress known best for her striking black bob was a star of the silent film era but never really made it when the sound completed the moving images on screen. Nevertheless, “Le Prix de Beauté” (“Miss Europe”, F 1930) was one of Brooks’ best movies and will be screened at Arsenal next Sunday with live piano performed by Eunice Martins. In the film Brooks plays a stenotypist who wins a beauty contest and eventually dies tragically. Incidentally it’s also the fourth birthday of of the series “Rising Stars, Falling Stars” presented by Vaginal Davis.
Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Potsdamer Str.2, 10785 Berlin-Mitte; map
So 16.10. 21.15h
Text: Nina Trippel
Published in Cee Cee #26 on 13.10.2011
