Diary of a Lost Girl
1929, NR, 100 min.
Directed by G.W. Pabst, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Louise Brooks.

G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks’ startlingly frank follow-up to Pandora’s Box features Brooks as a woman freed and empowered by her sexuality. As a beautiful naïf who, after a series of horrendous misadventures finally finds true happiness and fulfillment working at a brothel, Brooks remains not only unrepentant but virtuous – the only truly strong character in a film populated by hypocritical moralizers.

This article appears in April 26 • 2002.

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