Second part of BFI’s Towards a New Europe begins
by Cineuropa
The British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank continues its major, three-part season from October through December that looks at European identity, with particular emphasis on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (see article).
The second part of the season, Towards a New Europe: Europe since 1989, reveals the dreams and calamities following the collapse of the Eastern bloc. A selection of the best European films explores the shiny illusions and harsh realities of the post-1989 economy, such as in Kieslowski’s Three Colours: White, the humorous documentary Czech Dream and Pusher 3 [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Nicolas Winding Refn.
The immigrant and outsider experience is seen in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort and Fernand Melgar’s Swiss documentary La Fortresse, while memories of the recent past are confronted in Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze, new Romanian star Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest [+see also:
film review
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interview: Corneliu Porumboiu
interview: Daniel Burlac
film profile] and German director Robert Thalheim’s And Along Come Tourists [+see also:
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interview: Alexander Fehling
film profile].
The season continues in December with Part 3: Europe Imagined.
The event also includes a new exhibition by celebrated Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius, commissioned by the BFI for the Southbank Gallery to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall.
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