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Zentropa gives signs that the answer is yes. This existential melodrama was originally known as Europa, and Danish director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime...
...Europa, Europa...
...this slack, predictable movie is the fact that it won this year's foreign-film Oscar. There is something wrong with a system that rewards a movie as negligible as this with anything more than indifference -- especially in a year when Raise the Red Lantern was a nominee and Europa, Europa did not achieve even that status...
...EUROPA, EUROPA...
...EUROPA, EUROPA...