Release Date: January 17, 2023
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Director: Lars von Trier
With his dazzling first three features, Lars von Trier sought nothing less than to map the soul of Europe—its troubled past, anxious present, and uncertain future. Linked by a fascination with hypnotic states and the mesmeric possibilities of cinema, the films that make up the Europe Trilogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—filter the continent’s turbulent history, guilt, and traumas through the Danish provocateur’s audacious deconstructions of genres including film noir, melodrama, horror, and science fiction. Above all, they are bravura showcases for von Trier’s hallucinatory visuals, with each shot a tour de force of technical invention and dark imagination.
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Prices and Links:
Criterion- $79.96
Director: Lars von Trier
With his dazzling first three features, Lars von Trier sought nothing less than to map the soul of Europe—its troubled past, anxious present, and uncertain future. Linked by a fascination with hypnotic states and the mesmeric possibilities of cinema, the films that make up the Europe Trilogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—filter the continent’s turbulent history, guilt, and traumas through the Danish provocateur’s audacious deconstructions of genres including film noir, melodrama, horror, and science fiction. Above all, they are bravura showcases for von Trier’s hallucinatory visuals, with each shot a tour de force of technical invention and dark imagination.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration of Europa, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack, and 3K digital restorations of The Element of Crime and Epidemic, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
- Audio commentaries featuring director Lars von Trier and others
- Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997), a documentary by Stig Björkman
- Interview from 2005 with von Trier about the Europe Trilogy
- Making-of documentaries for all three films
- Programs on the films featuring interviews with many of von Trier’s collaborators
- Two short student films by von Trier: Nocturne (1980) and Images of Liberation (1982)
- Danish television interview with von Trier from 1994
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton
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