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...CINEMA...
...BOTTOM LINE: The staid European cinema comes alive with an epic as big and mysterious as the Continent...
There is a new style in European cinema -- finally. For three decades, since Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Bresson made anomie fashionable, European directors have dreamed -- or nightmared -- small. Their movies are dyspeptic miniatures: people sitting at a kitchen table, silent, sullen, waiting for the worst. Everybody, on both sides of the camera, has the glums. The camerabatic dazzle of, say, the French New Wave is now politically incorrect -- as if displaying any effervescence of imagination would betray a yearning for Hollywood's technical and narrative know-how. So the European cinema has aged like a movie star who retired decades...
...CINEMA Harrison Ford enlivens Patriot Games, fortunately...
Zentropa is the strangest. It has the overweening will to be a masterpiece and the verve nearly to carry it off. Big, enthralling and, frankly, nuts, Zentropa gives notice that European cinema is alive and kicking, one more time...