Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (Beauty Prize Miss Europe)

Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (Beauty Prize Miss Europe) (1930)

  • 80% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (438 ratings)

The French Prix de Beaute stars cult figure Louise Brooks as a nondescript typist for a Parisian newspaper. On a whim, Brooks submits her photograph to the Miss France Contest. To everyone's amazement--and her boyfriend Andre's (Georges Charlia) displeasure--she wins the contest, and is sucked into… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By
Augusto Genina
Written By
René Clair, Augusto Genina
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1930 Wide
On DVD
Mar 7, 2006
Sofar-Location

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

    The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Form seeks out beauty and beauty transforms form

  • , Time Out

    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.

  • Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

    Not Louise Brooks's best, but it certainly shows off her considerable talents.

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  • AJ V


    You've seen the themes before in different movies, the story of a girl who wins a beauty contest but her boyfriend doesn't like her being stared at by all those men. She marries him, but misses being a star. The actors are okay, and the story is interesting, but towards… More

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