Silent Film Series: Pandora’s Box

Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWe celebrate Louise Brooks, and her upcoming birthday on November 14th, with her most famous film.  The Kansas-born dancer and actress left an unsatisfying film career in America to go to Germany to portray Lulu in this adaptation of two Frank Wedekind plays. Who is the enigmatic Lulu?  Is she a femme fatale, and a symbol of female sexuality as power, or an innocent victim, and a symbol of man's fear of women?&