Synopsis
"A jet-black comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sly metacinematic prank,
Lars von Trier’s sophomore feature – born from a bet that he couldn’t make a film for less than $150,000 – finds the director channelling his singular thematic obsessions into an evocatively lo-fi, perversely self-reflexive provocation. The filmmaker himself stars as a harried screenwriter whose efforts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadly disease coincide with a grisly real-life plague. A twisted reflection on Europe’s haunted past – from the Black Death to
World War II – and its scarred present,
Epidemic is von Trier at his most idiosyncratic and audaciously experimental.” – Janus Films
