EPIDEMIC [Die "Europa" Trilogie #02]
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Fri Jun 28 2024 at 09:30 pm
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Lichtspiele Kalk | Cologne, NW
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Lichtspiele Kalk und Cinemania Kalk zeigen:Die "Europa" Trilogie #02
EPIDEMIC
Regie: Lars von Trier
Dänemark 1987 | 106 Min. | HD | FSK 16
Originalversion (Dänisch, Englisch) mit deutschen Untertiteln
++ Die Filme der "Europa" Trilogie von Lars von Trier ... Fr 21.06. um 21.30 Uhr ELEMENT OF CRIME ... Fr 28.06. um 21.30 Uhr EPIDEMIC ... Mi 03.07. um 19.00 Uhr EUROPA ... kommt alle! ++
"Dieser Film ist bis heute der Einzige, in dem Lars von Trier eine Hauptrolle übernommen hat. Er spielt den Drehbuchautor Lars, dem durch einen Diskettenfehler ein mit seinem Kollegen geschriebenes Drehbuch verlorengeht. Daraufhin entwerfen beide eine neue Geschichte, die vom Ausbruch einer mörderischen Epidemie handelt. In den nachfolgenden fünf Tagen beginnt sich die Fiktion in Krankheitsfällen zu realisieren.
Der zweite Teil der Europa-Trilogie wirkt durch die Wucht der Inszenierung und das trostlose Weltbild noch verstörender als von Triers Erstling "The Element of Crime", nicht zuletzt aufgrund jener Szenen, die seinen später konzipierten Dogma-Stil vorwegzunehmen scheinen." Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt (2011)
"A jet-black comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sly metacinematic prank, Lars von Trier's sophomore feature – born from a bet that he couldn’t make a film for less than $150.000 – finds the director channeling his singular thematic obsessions into an evocatively lo-fi, perversely self-reflexive provocation. The filmmaker himself stars as a harried screenwriter whose efforts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadly disease coincide with a grisly real-life plague. A twisted reflection on Europe's haunted past – from the Black Death to World War II – and its scarred present, EPIDEMIC is von Trier at his most idiosyncratic and audaciously experimental." The Criterion Collection
"EPIDEMIC is the second part of the trilogy ... After making his trilogy, Von Trier have each section a key word. The first film is in his opinion 'non-organic in its substance', the second, EPIDEMIC, is 'organic' and the last must be above all 'conceptual'. According to Von Trier, at the moment when you make it, a film should be like a stone in your shoe; you should have to think about it all the time. It symbolises his obsessive way of making films; nothing is self-evident in making a film. For instance in this film he uses for the first time techniques such as cross-cutting, pans and tilts, but he approaches these techniques with great distrust. He needed them to realise the less restrictive aesthetic form. After "The Element of Crime" he wanted to leave the form of the restriction and the sobriety behind him. EPIDEMIC is, it would appear, partly made without technicians; the camera is said to have turned for at least a third of the time without a cameraman. Von Trier regards this approach as a way of achieving an intimate atmosphere and peace of mind during shooting. EPIDEMIC was given several mottos including one by Olaf Ussing: 'To get old is wonderful – think of the alternative' and one by Udo Kier: 'Mir ist es egal, wer das Ticket zahlt'." International Film Festival Rotterdam 1992
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