Article: Theater of cruelty: sadistic director Lars von Trier has delivered the best film of the year. Already.(Movies)

WALKING THE RED CARPET at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Nicole Kidman, in town for the world premiere of Lars von Trier's Dogville, paused for a moment to remove her high heels. The film's notoriously travel-shy director, she explained, had agreed to come to France (via car from Denmark) on the condition that his star greet the press in her bare feet. As passive-aggressive humiliation tactics go, this one was reasonably harmless. Kidman smiled sweetly as she padded up the stairs, unaware that it was merely an aperitif. The main course was served at the press conference, where von Trier announced that Dogville would be the first part of a trilogy centered on Kidman's ...

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