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Article: VON TRIER TAKES A SATIRICAL LOOK AT SLAVERY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2006
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"Manderlay" is the second chapter in Lars von Trier's planned
three-part jeremiad against America's wicked ways. The first you
might recall, although maybe not, was 2003's "Dogville." The few
folks who saw it probably live under the same art-house rock.
"Dogville" was rough and unkind. A small Depression-era mining town
bullied and exploited good-hearted Nicole Kidman until her milk of
human kindness curdled. The movie was brilliantly reductive (there's
no such thing as true Christian charity) and so was its production
design: a big, starkly decorated stage that, from certain angles,
looked like a chalkboard, which, as it happened, was perfect for the
movie's lessons in socialization. (John ...