Zentropa Movie Review
Zentropa Review
"Zentropa" Overview

Rating: R
1991
Cast and Crew
Director : Lars von TrierProducer : Bo Christensen,Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Screenwiter : Lars von Trier,Niels Vørsel
Starring : Jean-Marc Barr,Barbara Sukowa,Udo Kier,Ernst-Hugo Järegård,Erik Mørk,Jørgen Reenberg
Lars von Trier has never been known for making movies that are on the nose. In
general, you're left to your own devices when it comes to figuring out what the
hell is going on in The Kingdom or The Element of Crime. Zentropa is no
exception, an inspired but devilishly confusing look at an American who takes a
job on a German railroad -- in postwar 1945. Soon enough he's caught up in a
mystery, a seeming pawn as a would-be terrorist, stuck between the Americans
and the daughter of the railroad-owning magnate -- who winds up dead. Von
Trier tries to emulate the work of Hitchcock like Notorious, but the suspense
level never rises above a low simmer. Heavy on style (though budget
constraints shine through from time to time) but a bit more than short on
substance.
Aka Europa.
Reviewer: Christopher Null



