A wordless sound film

The 1929 film, Diary of a Lost Girl (which the Silent Film Festival will screen July 17th), figures in this new short film from France. Loving Louise Brooks is a wordless sound film, in effect a “silent film,” though with a musical soundtrack. What's remarkable about it is that it is a student film, the work of Sebastian Pesle and other film students at the Lycee Jean-Batiste Corot. It is an 11 minute work which speaks not only to the vagaries of young love, but also to cinematic obsession – and the times when those forces collide. It is a very true film, and, we think, one cineastes will appreciate.