#diary of a lost girl

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Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

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DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929) dir. G.W. PABST

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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

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[Image description: A digital drawing of Thymian Henning from the film Diary of a Lost Girl. She takes up the right side of the piece, which captures her from her head to her waist. She is sitting with her arms in her lap. Her face is solemn, with mournful eyes staring off into the distance. She is coloured in with white, a flatly shaded with one tone of grey. The shadows are sectioned off by the lineart, which is a stark black. To the left of her shoulder, there's three white flowers. They also resemble crumples up paper. Above them, the name "Thymian" is written in cursive. The background is greying purple.]

Inktober - Day 17 (Journal)

Film - Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst, 1929)

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Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) (1929) G.W. Pabst

January 5th 2023

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Long time no see, my cryptic friends. I apologize for the absence. I appreciate those of you who've stuck around, and those of you who've magically found your way to my page during my time away. Thanks so much for following, or for having continued faith in my obscure little cause. In the next few days, something special is coming. Finally, right? Stay tuned🥀

GIF from Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

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Fritz Rasp and Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, 1929)

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Josef Rovensky, Vera Pawlowa, Franziska Kinz, André Roanne, Arnold Korff, Andrews Engelmann, Edith Meinhard, Sybille Schmitz, Kurt Gerron. Screenplay: Rudolf Leonardt, based on a novel by Margarete Böhme. Cinematography: Sepp Allgeier, Fritz Arno Wagner. Art direction: Emil Hasler, Ernö Metzner. Music: Otto Stenzeel. 

Diary of a Lost Girl feels like a falling-off from the standard set by Pabst's first film with Louise Brooks, Pandora's Box (1929), in large part because its source, a 1905 novel by Margarete Böhme, was less distinguished than the one for the previous film: Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays. Difficulties with censors resulted in some major cuts that sometimes leave the narrative hard to follow. Brooks plays Thymian Henning, the daughter of a well-to-do pharmacist (Josef Rovensky). She is raped and impregnated by her father's assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp). When she gives birth, her baby is taken away and she is expelled from her father's home, with the connivance of the housekeeper, Meta (Franziska Kinz), who later marries Thymian's father. She escapes from the oppressive reformatory to which she is sent and winds up in a high-class brothel. When her father dies, she expects an inheritance and marries her friend Count Orloff (André Roanne), who has been disinherited by his own father (Arnold Korff). But when she receives the money she discovers that Meta and the two children she had with Thymian's father have been left penniless. Rather than allow her young half-sister to suffer her own fate, Thymian gives her fortune to Meta. Learning of this, Count Orloff leaps to his death from an open window, but his remorseful father takes Thymian in, allowing her not only to prosper but also to take revenge on the reformatory personnel who had mistreated her. The elder Count Orloff then observes, "A little more love and no one would be lost in this world." That a story so improbable and sententious should work at all is a tribute to Pabst's willingness to take it seriously and to marshal a cast that performs it with apparent conviction. Brooks, however, feels miscast, especially after her triumph in Pandora's Box: It's difficult to accept the broad-shouldered, strong-backed Brooks as a 15-year-old, which she is at the film's beginning, and the performance feels one-note after the impressive range she achieved in the previous film. Diary of a Lost Girl was not a critical or commercial success, owing in part to the arrival of sound, which made it feel obsolete, and it didn't receive an American commercial release.

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'May 1899.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm sick and yet not sick. The endless unrest in me urges more and more strongly for an outlet.'

- Margarete Böhme, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl), 1905

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DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929) dir. G.W. PABST

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And the aura of you remains.

SUBLIME CINEMA #615 - DIARY OF A LOST GIRL

Louise Brooks was peerless among silent film stars - she was like the female predecessor to Cagney, modern and timeless. Her films were not always popular. She had to decamp to Germany and start making movies out of Hollywood to finally be recognized internationally, and this was her second and final collaboration with GW Pabst. 

She was a great writer too - Lulu in Hollywood is one of the greatest books about film ever written. 

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I want to slam open the door and scream:

“I love you!”

But you’re not there

You never will

Cause your not real

You never were

I love you

And it’s killing me

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“Es wäre wohl das beste für mich, wenn ich im Wochenbett stürbe. Doch wünsche ich es nicht. Mir ist so bange vor dem Tod, vor dem Versinken in die ewige Nacht und das ewige Nichts.” (It would probably be best for me if I died in childbirth. But I do not wish for it. I am so afraid of death, of sinking into the eternal night and the eternal nothingness.)

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen.

- Margarete Böhme -

Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929) ‘Diary of a Lost Girl’.

Directed by G.W. Pabst.

Louise Brooks - Edith Meinhard