| Lars Von Trier |  = explicit film
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| | As gifted as any director working today, but sometimes intensely (and intentionally) unlikable. EUROPA, KINGDOM and THE IDIOTS are five star works. BREAKING THE WAVES, ELEMENT OF CRIME, and DANCER IN THE DARK are excellent. DOGVILLE is, despite being almost universally despised, a masterpiece. There's an art spirit... something to do with a work being vastly more than the sum of its parts. Whatever it is, his movies have it in spades. They haunt and resonate. Von Trier has been somewhat side-tracked by association with his trite DOGMA manifesto, a theory of film that would value reality TV over 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. Amusingly, Von Trier is far too good a film-maker to follow the dictates of his own dogma. Since Von Trier doesn't follow Dogma it seems likely that the whole thing was a prank that others took seriously. |
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