Review of Epidemic

Pure metacinema. Lars gets involved in the first person by also involving his co-writer. Since his first film, Lars has tried in a provocative way to distinguish himself from his purist colleagues who have often denigrated him. As well as part of the audience. But he has always mocked himself, producing ever-changing films where he experimented with decidedly personal languages (not to mention the invention of unacceptable movements such as Dogma 95, where he seems to mock those who do not follow the rules!). In short, either you love it or hate it, no half measures, as it is in the character's strings. This second feature film whose title begins with E as the first (The Element of Crime) and the third (Europe) which gives its name to the trilogy (Europe: not a geographical place but rather a state of mind), is the one where, together to the first, he experimented more both technically, deliberately present grain using both the 16mm and 35mm format (which we will also find in the television The Kindom), and for contents, such as the exasperation in the use of metacinema that will end up in the hysterical cries of hypnotized and contaminated woman (the hypnotist is also found in the first film of the trilogy). Certain solutions that may appear bizarre, are instead the result of a deep knowledge of the history of cinema (with peace of the detractors). Above all his ideal mentor Dreyer!