Europa (2016)

We just wrapped up a month chock full of post-war noir movies but let’s hang on to the genre for just a little bit longer because this is a year we’re calling THE YEAR OF VON TRIER because it’s pretty much guaranteed to be a shit year so why not increase our existential dread? We’re wrapping up Lars von Trier’s Europa trilogy with his hypnotic post-war train noir from 1991 called “EUROPA” ( or “ZENTROPA” if you’re nasty ) starring Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa and more. An AWOL American steps onto German soil just after the Second World War ends and is granted a job on a train by his cantankerous Uncle. The horrors of Germany linger in the new era as Nationalists seek to conspire against the international occupiers and guilt hangs over the perpetrators who are protected by mutual international interests. Leopold Kessler, the American, seems like the perfect blank slate in a political struggle amidst broken Germany but will love save him or will it destroy him? Are we being hypnotized? Will we ever be free of Europa?

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