Epidemic (1987)

“(MU) Lars von Trier in one of his ars filmica, granulated manifestos (as his debut "Elemento of crime"), here around a film on an epidemic. Some stunning scenes with Wagner's soundtrack, the harge of Walkirias, and there are Hollywood quotations, a strange scene with Udo Kier...” read more

A Complete Review of Lars von Trier's work (16 movies items)

" Cast : Lars von Trier, Udo Kier What was it about? A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality. My two cents: Aesthetically, von Trier kept the same monochrome approach he used in his previous movies, except that this time he went for a classic black-and-white. To make it look even more experimental, they also added at some point the title of the movie on the top left corner and it remained there until the very end but, to be hone"

A good movie

“Since it was the last movie directed by Lars von Trier that I hadn’t watched so far, I was really eager to see the damned thing. Well, aesthetically, von Trier kept the same monochrome approach he used in his previous movies, except that this time he went for a classic black-and-white. To make it look even more experimental, they also added at some point the title of the movie on the top left corner and it remained there until the very end but, to be honest, I thought it was rather distracting. Concerning the rest of the movie, well, it might be the most meta movie delivered by von Trier, at least, so far. Indeed, instead of making a classic outbreak thriller, he made a movie about a director writing a movie about an epidemy and he played the director himself. He even played the characte” read more