Lulu
By Mark Morey
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I recommend Lulu as a psychological drama that will make you think – five stars. Kate Baldwin – author.
Lulu is a great novel. Janet Miller - author
Reviews of Pandora's Box:
•What makes G W Pabst’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) so astonishing is the non-moralistic candour of its ambiguous sexuality and the electrifying presence of a 22-year-old American actress named Louise Brooks. Based on two plays by Frank Wedekind, the film is a completely modern creation, concentrating on the amorous exploits of Lulu, available to seemingly everyone but possessed by no-one, who manages to bring all of her suitors, male or female, to grief.
•When all is said and done, I would say Pandora’s Box is a great film, an impressively skilful film, but one that’s very much in debt to the presence of Louise Brooks. It will probably always be included on lists of the greatest films ever made. It will probably always enjoy praise. But it does seem to me that the real cult of the long and gritty Pandora’s Box is actually the cult of Louise Brooks.
•With Pandora’s Box you forget that it’s black and white. You forget that the internet has yet to happen. You forget that more than two hours have gone by. You forget because it’s completely modern — 100 per cent gripping and involving.
•Full of striking imagery which, once seen, will stay with you forever, this is a highly accomplished piece of work which brings together some of the greatest talents of the era. 1929 was a good year for cinema, but amongst its several treasures, Pandora's Box stands out.
•And yet, seen today, Pandora’s Box is a bold and captivating film and Louise Brooks’ performance simply breathtaking. Playing the bright, vivacious but totally amoral and curiously vulnerable Lulu, she dominates virtually every scene she appears in.
Although made in 1928 and first screened in 1929, the greatness of Pandora's Box wasn't recognised until 1953, when the acting style of Louise Brooks, quite literally decades ahead of its time, was finally regarded for the triumph that it was. Lulu tells the story of one of the greatest silent movies ever made, and the story of one of the greatest movie actresses of her era.
Mark Morey
Writing a novel didn't cross my mind until relatively recently, when I went to the local library and couldn't find a book that interested me. That led me consider a new pastime. Write a book. That book may never be published, but I felt my follow-up cross-cultural crime with romance hybrid set in Russia had more potential. So much so that I wrote a sequel that took those characters on a journey to a very dark place.Once those books were published and garnered good reviews I wrote in a very different place and time, and my two novels set in Victorian Britain and published in July and August of 2014. I followed those up with various novels set in various places at various times, with the most recent being a story set in the Syrian Civil War.
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