Wishing You the Same

The iconic book Europeana A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník first published in 2001 thanks to the imagination of the French filmmaker has transformed into an apocalyptic chronicle of the last century A straightforward testimony of scientific rationality which led the society to a spiritual crisis and resulted in six genocides is accompanied with melancholic Mahlerian echoes of La Belle Époque when the world was just getting ready for the century that negated all humanity The film raises the question whether Europe in posthistory and posthumanity sweetly anaesthetized to collective unconsciousness will pretend as if nothing had happened