Fresh
The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Overview
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for. She finds her jealous lover Andre violently disapproves of such events and tries to withdraw, but it's too late; she's even then being named Miss France. The night Andre planned to propose to her, she's being whisked off to the Miss Europe finals in Spain, where admirers swarm around her. Win or lose, what will the harvest be?
Director and cast
- Augusto Genina Director
- Louise Brooks as Lucienne
- Georges Charlia as André
- Augusto Bandini as Antonin (as H. Bandini)
- André Nicolle as Le secrétaire du journal (as A. Nicolle)
- Alex Bernard as Le photographe
- Gaston Jacquet as Le Duc
- Jean Bradin as Prince de Grabovsky
- Henri Crémieux Cast
- Mark Tsibulsky as Le manager (as M. Ziboulsky)
- Yves Glad as Le maharajah
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Although beset by a possessive lover, by showbiz exploiters and, in a remarkable funfair scene, by humanity generally, Brooks is so sheerly, dominatingly vivacious that oppression hardly seems an issue.
Time Out
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