Visions of Europe is 2004 anthology film consisting of 25 short films by as many directors, each from one of the countries then member states of the European Union.[1][2] The directors include Aki Kaurismäki, Fatih Akin, Béla Tarr, and Peter Greenaway.[3][4]
All the short films express their creator's vision of what is Europe or the European Union.[5] The Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde shows migrants arriving on the coast of Italy, in "Cold Water"[6] while the Finnish Aki Kaurismaki films the Portuguese town of Bico.[7] For Lithuania, Šarūnas Bartas directed "Children Lose Nothing",[8] a wordless romance involving two teenagers.
Each short film has an approximate duration of 5 minutes.
Variety commented that "Offering one of his most accessible films in years, U.K. helmer Peter Greenaway lays on a witty parable in which naked people, each body-painted with a national flag, climb into a warm shower together in the same order in which each country joined the EU."[7]
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