Melbourne town hall, Rising festivalJulian Rosefeldt’s magnificent and exhausting film, starring the Oscar winner and Giancarlo Esposito, reverts to evasive surrealist flourishes just as it threatens to become truly angry
town hall where most of the action takes place, and five smaller screens depicting solo drummers at their kits, providing Euphoria’s driving, pulsating beat. Beneath these screens runs the work’s Greek chorus, a choir of young people lined up like a living skirting board, facing us with hope and sometimes what feels suspiciously like derision. Aurally, it’s magnificent.
Visually, it’s often beautiful too, without ever quite reaching the heights of euphoria promised by that title. Christoph Krauss’s cinematography is captivating, the intense clarity of the image never at the sacrifice of texture and tone. There are neat little nods to cinematic visionaries from Fellini to Busby Berkeley, and tracking shots for days – although drones have quickly diminished the technical prestige of those admittedly majestic aerial shots.
Euphoria is grappling with a key tension in modern western democracies: how can we stop desiring the thing that will bring about our own destruction, namely endless economic growth in an increasingly automated world? One character, working in a factory that deliberately evokes Amazon, calls for rebellion, and the homeless men who gather around a bin seem to be sniffing at the edges of actual revolution.
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