Dieser Kult-Klassiker ist sowohl Brecht’sches Experiment als auch Verhöhnung Amerikas. Von Trier importierte allerlei englischsprachige Stars (darunter Nicole Kidman), um eine 1930er Gangster-Geschichte aufzuführen – in einem realitätsfernen Studio, das bald zum spannungsgeladenen Schauplatz wird.
This early triumph by Lars von Trier, which won no less than three prizes at Cannes, is one of his most bizarre yet accessible works: a feverish retooling of film noir, an unhinged thriller, and a visually mind-blowing odyssey into a nightmare of our past.
A difficult yet rewarding film from the equally complex Danish provocateur Lars von Trier! This fiercely polemical, little-seen sequel to Dogville tackles a topic as sensitive as slavery, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s Brechtian premise, anti-American bent, and yes, its brilliance.
Lars von Trier takes a starring role in his second feature, a metafictional—and metaphysical—exploration of creative culpability. If the title suggests a resonance with our contemporary condition, Epidemic soon reveals itself as a playfully ironic portrait of the artist-philosopher as a young man.