Pandora's Box

In just two collaborations, the German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst and the Kansas-born Louise Brooks created a screen personality that left a permanent mark on the history of film.

In American cinema, fate is often presented as a path leading to success – especially when it comes to love.  People meet, fall head-over-heels for one another, experience a setback or two, then live happily ever after.  In films outside of Hollywood, love stories are more realistic, and more in tune with subjective experiences of …