| AmaFilms | Release Date: May 22, 1992 |
Starring:
Barbara Sukowa, Benny Poulsen, Eddie Constantine, Erik Mørk, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Henning Jensen, Jean-Marc Barr, Jørgen Reenberg, Max von Sydow, Udo Kier
Summary:
Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
A comic-fantasy nightmare of the wickedest kind. [22 Jul 1992, p.4D
Zentropa is a film in sunglasses and a black beret, melodramatic and formidable. It took me two viewings of the movie to realize that a compelling story emerges when its surreal settings, harsh lighting, macabre characterizations, dreamlike images and cartoonishly stilted performances are set aside. [26 Jun 1992, p.G5]
Europa has been described as a Kafka-esque fever dream, and while that isn't inaccurate, it's also a cover for the film's confounding narrative, which wends through murky noir plotting, a polyglot of accents and performance styles, and surreal interludes. The best approach is not to puzzle too much over the details, and to marvel at von Trier's technical wizardry, which re-imagines the period through a patchwork of vivid impressions.
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A bizarre, dreamlike, surrealistic thriller, Zentropa is one of those films that is easier to admire than like. Creatively crafted and finely tuned, it is also an extremely cold, nihilistic work - as starkly efficient as the imperious railroad company that forms the centerpiece. [03 Jul 1992, p.C]
Zentropa seems like the work of a precocious child who's been given too many expensive toys. [10 Jul 1992, p.24]
Oct 13, 2020
Un gran trabajo de Lars Von Trier que conlleva una historia bastante melodramatica y lúgubre donde abunda el nihilismo por parte de sus personajes, con una impecable cinematografía al punto de que realmente parece una película de los años 40 cuando es de 1991.
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