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Abendland

Abendland

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  • Austria
  • 2011
  • · 90m

Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Genre Documentary

Consisting of a series of images and scenes of modern Europe at night, this documentary examines the continent's current identity, touching on surveillance, technology, security, community, and nationalism.

Stream Abendland

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80

Time Out by David Fear

His look at an Old World continent reeling from the New World values is both thrilling and damning.

70

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

It's impossible to know from the movie whether Mr. Geyrhalter believes this paradise needs protecting or whether something in his words - irony, fury, laughter - was lost in translation.

63

Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier

The documentary discipline can't escape its own inherent intermediateness, or its own penchant for deception.

60

Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton

There's material from a phone-in psychoanalysis center, the dumping grounds of London's surveillance-camera feed, and the detox tent at some massive biergarten - like much of the film, mordantly funny in a kind of pursed-lips, arched-eyebrows way.