In the Zone with Lars von Trier

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Last night I watched Lars von Trier's /Europa /(US-title: Zentropa) on 
'arte TV' and to me it was very resonant with echoes from /Gravity's 
Rainbow/. The relation of Leo Kessler and Katharina Hartmann (played by 
Barbara Sukowa) reminds me strongly of Slothrop and Katje. And the way 
things turn out for Kessler in the end - showing that it's not so easily 
possible for America to shake off her deadly European roots - is, imo, 
largely in accordance with the perspective of Pynchon 1 from V over Col 
49 to GR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%28film%29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wO1ISUuiuc

Even if you don't like some of von Trier's later works - me I enjoyed 
/Melancholia/ earlier this summer and am still enthusiastic about it! -, 
you should have a look at this one in a Pynchonian context.


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