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Zentropa (Europa)

Europa

1991

Lars von Trier

Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård ...

7.3

10,476

Drama. War. Mystery An American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 1945. His uncle gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. The American's wish is to be neutral to the ongoing purges of loyalists by the Allied forces and do what he can to help a hurting country, but he finds himself being used by both the Americans and the influential family that owns the railroad. After falling in love with the railroad magnate's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Clifford Terry Chicago Tribune	"A bizarre, dreamlike, surrealistic thriller, Zentropa is one of those films that is easier to admire than like (...) it is also an extremely cold, nihilistic work"	POS
United States	Jeff Shannon Seattle Times	"Zentropa seems like the work of a precocious child who's been given too many expensive toys"	NEU
United States	San Francisco Chronicle	"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"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"It's an obscure experience, partly alienating, partly enthralling; it weaves a spell that is frightening, irritating and invigorating all at once."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The film is too confusing to be successful, but too striking and visually beautiful to be ignored"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"Zentropa is above all unique in its radical take on the inherent confusion of postwar Europe, offering the viewer a glimpse like none he has had before"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Although the actual story of Zentropa is the stuff of an ordinary thriller, that plot is the only conventional aspect of a film that is an almost impudently flashy and knowing exercise in post-modern cinematic expressionism."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Labyrintine and hypnotic, there's undoubtedly more style than substance to the film, but Von Trier manages to blind and bewilder his audience in a truly masterful manner"	POS

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