Europa

On October of 1945, the American German descendant Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) arrives in a post-war Frankfurt and his bitter Uncle Kessler (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) gets a job for him in the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. While... Full review

Storyline: Max von Sydow's voice-over narration hypnotizes the protagonist (and audience) back to 1945 where our protagonist the young American ideologist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) has just arrived in post-WWII 1945 Germany to help rebuilding the damaged country. Uncle Kessler... Full review

Von Trier once explained how he created such strong involvement from the viewer with his movies by placing his movie world in about the middle of the real world and the imagined world. So as viewers we think we watch... Full review

With stunning cinematography and a thread of Kafkaesque absurdity, this movie had me from the simple yet fascinating opening scene. The movie plays much like a dream, and I think that may be why people either hate it or love... Full review

A few years ago, a friend got from one of his other friends a video with the Michael Mann film 'Heat' on it. After we finished that movie, and were about to stand up, we saw that there is another... Full review

Someone release this movie on DVD so it can take its hallowed place as on of the greatest films of all time in ten to twenty years when critics and film historians look back on the so-called films of the... Full review

This is the fifth von Trier film I have seen. I believe that he is the only director to whom I have given such a high score on all his movies. Four of them, The Element of Crime, Europa, Breaking... Full review

Von Trier has created a film that is a noir satire, a joke on psychotherapy, the last great hurrah for back-projection in movies (even tops "The Nasty Girl" in that depatment), a historical hoax, a satire of the Prussian work... Full review

By watching this movie I discovered an artist that I waited too long to discover. Playing with multiple cinematographic tricks Trier not only bring us back in history but he also adopt the style that movie had in the time... Full review

Zentropa is another von Trier film that manages to tell an authentically interesting story, revel in its own aesthetic beauty, and engage us in questions of metaphysics. The films narration, as described above, sets the gauntlet very high. The often... Full review

The stereo mix offers a sharp panoply of sound effects, Joachim Holbek's Herrmannesque score....the unnerving intonations of Max von Sydow..... ... Full Review

Lars von Trier opens his brilliant "Europa" by literally trying to hypnotize his audience.....The audio is even better with a soundtrack that was mastered at 24-bit from the 35mm LT / RT optical track..... ... Full Review

CHICAGO - Lars von Trier opens his brilliant "Europa" by literally trying to hypnotize his audience. To that end, Criterion has remastered "Europa" in a newly restored high-definition digital transfer that meticulously removed thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches from an original print of the film. ... Full Review

the film's striking cinematography.... ... Full Review

the film's striking cinematography.... ... Full Review

Absent from the features competition prize list at the 7th Paris Cin?ma festival, which closes today with the triumph of George Ovashvili 's The Other Bank (Georgia/Kazakhstan), Europe enjoyed much greater prominence at the professional meetings. ... Full Article

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit that I don't really get Danish director Lars von Trier . His movies baffle me, and make me feel stupid. ... Full Article

An American-born German pacifist (Jean-Marc Barr) takes a job as a sleeping-car conductor in post-World War II Frankfurt in a misguided attempt to help rebuild the motherland, then falls hard for his employer's vampy separatist daughter (Barbara Sukowa). ... Full Article

Following The Element of Crime and Epidemic , this third feature by Von Trier may be best. A master of directorial skill, he makes with Europa and ambitious and entirely successful attempt to introduce a new vision to cinema as... ... Full Article