Element of Crime, The

Aroview: A detective’s unconventional methods qualify him for the investigation of child murders in a dark, decaying, post-apocalyptic Germany.

Dir. Von Trier’s debut, like his better known ZENTROPA, is an expressive, oblique thriller, less concerned with narrative than cinematic style steeped in the tradition of austere European film-makers (Dreyer, Lang, Godard), and strikingly rendered in sepia-toned ‘colour’. In English.

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