Rotten
The picture has minor virtues and major defects.
Variety Staff, Variety
Joyless Street
Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you'll come face to face with naked misery.
1925 · 2h 35m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
G.W. Pabst
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Joyless Street
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In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Rotten
Despite Garbo, it's heavy going -- an official classic that hasn't quite earned the title.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It later came as a major revelation, both when compared with Pabst's later work and in the context of the development of a film narrative able to accommodate a large number of characters.
Time Out
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