Europa trilogy
The Europa Trilogy is a film trilogy written and directed by Lars von Trier, and comprising his first three feature films, The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987) and Europa (also known as Zentropa; 1991).[1]
The films are not a narrative trilogy, but rather are linked by common themes and stylistic explorations. The overarching subject of the trilogy may be taken to be the social crisis of postwar Europe. Each of the three films follows a character whose idealistic actions ultimately perpetuate the very problem he seeks to solve. Von Trier's later USA - Land of Opportunities Trilogy also deals with both apparent social collapse, and the ill-effects of the interventions of idealistic individuals.
The trilogy also experiments with film noir conventions, and explores hypnosis and the relationship between reality and unreality.
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- ^ Studi nordici. Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. 1 January 2005. p. 85. http://books.google.com/books?id=NjTiAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
[edit] Further reading
- Simons, Jan (15 September 2007). Playing the waves: Lars Von Trier's game cinema. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789053569795. http://books.google.com/books?id=GUrJW2G9WkIC. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
