Pandora's Box (1929)
Directed by G.W. Pabst
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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What critics compared Pandora's Box to
To illustrate precisely what he wanted, Resnais reportedly screened G.W. Pabst's Brooks-starring Pandora's Box for cast and crew.
During a (chapter two) dinner party at Emma and Adèle’s home, the guests appear against an outdoor movie screen that shows Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1928), yet another effort to explain and also to worry about an unknowable woman; Adèle and her guests listen to Joachim (Stéphane Mercoyrol), a gallery owner whose favor may be instrumental in Emma’s career going forward.
At one point, the film comes to a narrative halt so that Scorsese can give us a brief, dazzling history of the movies’ first three decades, which include flashes of everything from the Edison Company’s 1894 experimental sound film to Louise Brooks vamping it up in Pandora’s Box (1929).