Featured Audience Ratings

• Anthony L

  
  Epidemic represents the birth, or at least, the conception of the Dogme movement. Lars von Trier had proved he could do stylish and beautiful films on a modest budget, it was only when he took this film on as a bet (To prove he could make a film on a very small budget) did his truly… More
  Epidemic represents the birth, or at least, the conception of the Dogme movement. Lars von Trier had proved he could do stylish and beautiful films on a modest budget, it was only when he took this film on as a bet (To prove he could make a film on a very small budget) did his truly experimental style surface. It works, it feels real, is original and it did indeed stick to its small budget. It also bought out the Von Trier as we know him, challenging to the last, almost to the point of pure exhaustion. 'A film should be like a pebble in a shoe' and this is one sharp pebble, the final screams are almost unbearable. It is brilliant but it is only a peek at the greatness to come.

• Dimitris S

  
  Apocalyptic manifesto,the last 20 minutes are what our subculture today should have been: decadent in a vicious square of thoughts.And here is the wizard's illumination,a plot where what's seen isn't less real than what's felt.

• MJS M

  
  Lars Von Trier?s second feature film, this film is extremely experimental and of little interest otherwise. Shot on cheap black and white film stock (parts of it make Clerks look like Black Hawk Down), the film features Von Trier playing himself writing a movie intercut with images… More
  Lars Von Trier?s second feature film, this film is extremely experimental and of little interest otherwise. Shot on cheap black and white film stock (parts of it make Clerks look like Black Hawk Down), the film features Von Trier playing himself writing a movie intercut with images of the movie he?s writing. The plot about the writing very boring and the story that their writing is incoherently disjointed by the nature of the project. The film is filled with odd quirks like the decision to have the film?s title as a watermark in the upper left corner of the screen throughout the whole film for no conceivable reason. I checked it out to cross a Von Trier flick off my ?to see? list (been investigating the guy since his latest caused a stir at Cannes) but this thing is a big miss.