Article: FILM: Lars von Trier, nil. Jorgen Leth, five The Five Obstructions Jorgen Leth, Lars von Trier 90 MINS, 15

For all the talk about his grand themes - redemption, abjection, female martyrdom - what's often forgotten about Denmark's master provocateur Lars von Trier is that he's first and foremost a games player. His films are invariably stylistic exercises, attempts to sustain an entire movie on a seemingly impracticable formal conceit: his recent Dogville (released here next year) is a three-hour theatrical experiment acted on a bare sound stage without scenery. And let's not forget that the Dogme movement he started was originally intended not as a method of achieving starkly unmediated visions of reality, but rather as a game governed by 10 arbitrary rules, designed to force film-makers into ...

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