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!@#$%! · 01.10.2017, 03:18 PM

breaking the waves is great-- and very much revealing of his themes-- but it's a mature film already, and made the international arthouse/indie circuit in its day, and he was already famous by then, and got a good cast etc. i mean a lot of people got introduced to him that way so it's a totally valid way to see him for the first time.

but if you can find "the element of crime" you'll be able to track his obsessions nicely from there forward. granted it's not the most masterful or mature of works, but the visual fireworks are pretty great especially considering the evident low budget he had in the mid 80s. he immerses you in a certain particular nightmarish atmosphere, and it's an atmosphere to which he'll return over & over through his work (not in breaking the waves, but in kingdom or antichrist for example). also it resonates with europa, a later movie which is the one that was sort of his breakout movie. epidemic is in the middle of those two-- it was kinda crazy and i don't remember much of it ha ha ha.

what can i say. i like chronologies. they're eye-opening. besides, he tends to work in trilogies and groups/series, which are interesting when seen that way.

01.10.2017, 03:18 PM	#20449
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,729	breaking the waves is great-- and very much revealing of his themes-- but it's a mature film already, and made the international arthouse/indie circuit in its day, and he was already famous by then, and got a good cast etc. i mean a lot of people got introduced to him that way so it's a totally valid way to see him for the first time. but if you can find "the element of crime" you'll be able to track his obsessions nicely from there forward. granted it's not the most masterful or mature of works, but the visual fireworks are pretty great especially considering the evident low budget he had in the mid 80s. he immerses you in a certain particular nightmarish atmosphere, and it's an atmosphere to which he'll return over & over through his work (not in breaking the waves, but in kingdom or antichrist for example). also it resonates with europa, a later movie which is the one that was sort of his breakout movie. epidemic is in the middle of those two-- it was kinda crazy and i don't remember much of it ha ha ha. what can i say. i like chronologies. they're eye-opening. besides, he tends to work in trilogies and groups/series, which are interesting when seen that way.
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