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Article: FILM: Lars von Trier, nil. Jorgen Leth, five The Five Obstructions Jorgen Leth, Lars von Trier 90 MINS, 15
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2003
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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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