| A Taste of LARS VON TRIER: Period 1: (''The European Trilogy'') ''EUROPA'' A Taste of LARS VON TRIER Period One: “The European Trilogy” Europa (Zentropa) (Directed by Lars von Trier/Denmark/1991/112mins.)  With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Suvoka, Max von Sydow, Udo Kier “ You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . .” So begins Max von Sydow’s opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway-train ride to an oddly futuristic past. In English and German with English subtitles WINNER: Cannes Film Festival Prix de Jury, Best Artistic Contribution Fantasporto Festival International Fantasy Film Award Best Director “A STYLIZED THRILLER IN THE HITCHCOCK TRADITION”-Herald Tribune Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 8:00 PM Miami Beach Cinematheque 512 Espanola Way Miami Beach, FL 33139 Phone: (305) 673-4567 Website: www.mbcinema.com E-Mail: info@mbcinema.com Map & Directions |
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