"Two. Your hands and your fingers are getting warmer and heavier."
I finally get around to seeing the third and final installment in Lars von Trier's Europa Trilogy and I can't help but wish I had left it a duology. Sorry Lars. Brilliant through two. It's not that Europa is a terrible film or badly made, on the contrary, it's as well conceived as the first two and purposefully shot, if not a touch funny in places, and the opening (and sporadic) narration courtesy Max von Sydow's dulcet tone is pure von Trier, yet the plot is uninspired compared to Epidemic and Element of Crime, maybe that's the reason why it fell a little flat. That, and I've been extremely weary of WWII-related films for some time now. You hear that, Inglorious Basterds?
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