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Article: VON TRIER'S 'DOGVILLE' A TOUGH TOWN.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

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April 16, 2004
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Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News

The mythology of small towns comes under vicious attack in Lars von Trier's Dogville, a movie set in a tapped-out Colorado town during the Depression. When the fictional town of Dogville dares to look a gift horse in the mouth, it's severely punished for its greed, betrayals and boundless hypocrisies.

If the thinking behind von Trier's morality play tends to be freighted with pretension, the movie stands as fascinating and cruel, and even at three hours, Dogville seldom bores.

Set entirely on a soundstage with streets and houses marked by white lines, von Trier's opus is a tour de force of ...

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