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Rotha, regarding the film even better than The Joyless Street, observed that Jeanne Ney developed from sequence to sequence with breathtaking power. Mood succeeded mood, each perfect in its tension and its understanding.
The Love of Jeanne Ney also offers lots of surreal images, as in one scene where a simple-minded old man gives Jeanne what appears to be a couple of fish wrapped in a newspaper. Curiously, in Rudolf Leonhardt and Ladislaus Vajda’s screenplay (from a novel by Ilja Ehrenburg), the lives of the characters keep intersecting.
- Danny Fortune
Nov 2, 2022 · The Love of Jeanne Ney is one of those torrid love stories told against a backdrop of roiling conflict. Or that’s what it looks like at the outset. Or that’s what it looks like at the outset. But by the end it’s become more like a showcase for everything the great Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst could do – all the genres in all ...
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Made at Germany's leading film studio, UFA, midway between two of Pabst's best-known films of this era - Joyless Street (1925) and Pandora's Box (1929), The Love of Jeanne Ney is somewhat less well regarded, primarily because it panders too obviously to popular tastes. At a time when German cinema was beginning to buckle under the force of ...
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Joyless Street, indeed, was the core film in a cycle of “street” films, careful delineations of postwar Germany’s economic and spiritual poverty. The Love of Jeanne Ney saw Pabst’s expressive mise-en-scene taken to dramatic extremes; it is a film whose pathological “thingness” invites comparisons with von Stroheim’s Greed. His ...
Pabst is now best known for directing Pandora’s Box, which turned Louise Brooks into an international star, and the Greta Garbo vehicle The Joyless Street. In between those films he took charge of The Love of Jeanne Ney , an adaptation of a novel by Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg and set just a decade earlier than that in which the film was made.
eibon04 11 January 2002. Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) is an involving Wartime melodrama with images that impress. Definitely the work of a great director in G.W. Pabst who is the second greatest filmmaker in German Silent films right after Fritz Lang. Includes a post Metropolis role for Brigitte Helm. Acting is very good and the set designs are ...
