Der Todesking [Special European Edition] (product link) Horror / Thriller Jorg Buttgereit often comes across as a bit of a clown in interviews and on commentary tracks. "The Death King", however, is a sombre and unexpectedly beautiful meditation on death. Buttgereit's attempt to make a film without a protagonist results in seven vignettes of suicide, for each day of the week. Between the short stories, we witness the disintegration of a human corpse in time-lapse photogaphy, set to pounding electronic rhythms and piercing violins. One of the most affecting pieces shows where people have jumped off a bridge--rather than show anyone jumping, we just see the last thing they saw as their names are superimposed on the uninhabited screen and the usually musical soundtrack gives way to wind and the sound of cars thumping across the bridge overhead. Profound, compelling, original filmmaking.
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