Europa (1991) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #454]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x536, ~ 2,5 Mbps | 1hr 52mn | 2.44 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ Danish (Commentary): AC3, 2 ch, 192 kbps \ English (Commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Thriller
“You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa.” Max von Sydow’s ominous, hypnotic induction inaugurates the entrancing final installment of Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy. An idealistic American (Jean-Marc Barr) travels to postwar Germany to take a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways—and finds himself plunged into a murky, Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal where the shadow of Nazism hovers menacingly over everything. With its ravishing cinematography (in black and white, color, and at times a stunning mix of both), dreamlike use of rear projections, and lush fusion of melodrama and noir conventions, Europa is a sublimely stylized cinematic fugue.