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Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929
Drama
1h 19m
Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drown. That same day, her father already has a new governess named Meta. Meinert, downstairs druggist, takes advantage of her and gets Thymiane pregnant. When she refuses to marry, her baby is taken from her and she is put into a strict girls reform school... (imdb)
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Diary of a Lost Girl

1929
Drama
1h 19m
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Rated 12 May 2008
92
97th
A moving story of a girl disowned by her family after getting raped. The acting is quite strong, though very much of the exaggerated style common in silent films, and while it's a little slow at times it does cover a lot of ground and is quite well put together. The ending is great and really pulls the film together.
Rated 12 Mar 2016
75
77th
Not entirely as brilliant as 'Pandora's Box', but it's mostly very good. The ending didn't work for me.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
63
40th
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Rated 15 Feb 2013
83
95th
Whatever happened to Edith Meinhard? Someone asks but no one knows. http://immensedarkblossom.blogspot.com/2012/05/whatever-happened-to-edith-meinhard.html http://immensedarkblossom.blogspot.com/2012/06/update-edith-meinhard.html Better than Pandora for Pabst & Brooks collaboration.
Rated 18 Aug 2009
72
24th
Brooks was much better playing a coquettish entertainer in "Pandora's Box" - her personality is mismatched with this character of a repressed girl who can't get the man she wants and ends up being led down a bad path. There seem to be some plot holes which mar the enjoyment. More silly than rousing.
Rated 01 Jul 2015
5
70th
excellent setup with some powerful melodramatics and lovely photography, but the narrative progression left something to be desired.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
54
8th
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Rated 19 Dec 2008
61
22nd
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Rated 30 Sep 2011
87
82nd
Pretty strong subject matter for the 20's.
Rated 20 Nov 2010
86
83rd
The second Louise Brooks/G.W. Pabst collaboration (after "Pandora's Box"). Dark and gloomy. Made after flapper Brooks left Hollywood to pursue greater opportunities and more challenging roles under Pabst's guidance.
Rated 25 Sep 2007
72
26th
A pretty moving story. The performances are great. It does feel like it has several endings though.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
57
14th
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Rated 14 May 2009
40
23rd
Damned if I know why people think this is so great. For one thing... rape? *What* rape? She goes to see an obvious creep alone at 10:30 at night, and I didn't see him force her or drug her. For another, I'm not sure what is more absurd: the plot, or the characters. Louise Brooks is beautiful, but that's about all that can be said for this
Rated 23 Oct 2017
81
78th
Composed social drama with a meandering story.
Rated 14 Sep 2008
85
84th
I liked this a bit more than Pandora's Box. I was more deeply wrapped up in the story and I cared more about Brooks' character. Also, this is pretty saucy stuff. No onscreen sex or violence, but very obvious rape, prostitution, lesbianism, and reform school girl mob justice. Pabst is excellent at establishing atmosphere; as soon as the film introduces a new location, you know exactly what kind of place it is. The film isn't consistently great, but there are some very impressive moments.
Rated 16 Nov 2019
90
77th
Lesser of the pair of Pabst/Brooks collaborations, but still great.
Rated 22 Feb 2019
90
77th
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Rated 27 Sep 2019
90
87th
Há exatos 90 anos Diário de uma Garota Perdida estreava em Viena. Fiquei muito tempo se esse filme realmente se encaixava como exemplar do expressionismo alemão, mas devido aos seus vilões caricaturalmente maus acho que dá sim para encaixá-lo nesse estilo. Melodramático, mas eficaz em mostras os trâmites do patriarcado, é um belo filme e mostra o quanto a Louise Brooks era mesmo a dona da porra toda. Box Obras-primas do Cinema Expressionismo Alemão Volume 2.
Rated 02 Oct 2019
93
95th
An overused term and I'm sure sentiment for this film but that ending was moving or haunting or whatever you wanna say. One of the better looking flicks of its era
Rated 05 Apr 2020
79
88th
All the funhouse filler made the second act a little draggy. Picked up the original pace pretty well after, though.
Rated 23 Sep 2023
70
41st
Enjoyable melodrama with a somewhat familiar story of a girl driven into prostitution by unfair circumstances with some twists on the formula. Brooks is great.

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