Rising Stars, Falling Stars – Five-Year Anniversary!

Since coming to Berlin in 2007 from LA, Vaginal Davis has been inviting audiences to join her at her monthly film evenings. For the anniversary celebration on October 14, she is dedicating the program once again to actress Louise Brooks, this time in TAGEBUCH EINER VERLORENEN (Diary of a Lost Girl, G.W. Pabst, Germany 1929). Thymian has a special effect on men, soon resulting in a child, which carries certain consequences: after being abandoned by the father, having the child taken from her and being tortured in an institution, she is thrown into a brothel by a shady count. "And Louise Brooks moves through the film in silent beauty, frightened, defiant, in anticipation and bewilderment, as the girl to whom all this happens. Almost like a beautiful, tragic Buster Keaton." (Berliner Tageblatt, 1929).