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- 2004
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 2 h 58 m
- 2004
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 2 h 58 m
Summary Lars von Trier explores the concept of goodness in this story of a fugitive hiding in a small town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s.
Directed By: Lars von Trier
Written By: Lars von Trier
- 2004
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 2 h 58 m
- 2004
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 2 h 58 m
Dogville
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8.4
Summary Lars von Trier explores the concept of goodness in this story of a fugitive hiding in a small town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s.
Directed By: Lars von Trier
Written By: Lars von Trier
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
61
62% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
15% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
61
62% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
15% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
23% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Intentionally designed to rile as much as entertain.
User Score
Universal acclaim
Based on 182 User Ratings
8.4
88% Positive
160 Ratings
160 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Universal acclaim
Based on 182 User Ratings
8.4
88% Positive
160 Ratings
160 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Is really humanity for humans? This tragedy really successes to show how conditional humanity is.
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one of the greatest movies I've seen my whole life. 3 hours worth every second. a one-of-a-kind film that makes you reevaluate whats good and whats bad and leaves you with so many emotions and sometimes helps you through it. I envy the people who haven't watched it yet, cause they have one of the most especiall 3 hours of their life to come.
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Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on.
Not for everyone. It is darkly funny, intellectually challenging and obliquely didactic. It also grows bleaker over the course of its nearly three-hour running time.
Either an airless allegory about opportunistic Americans or another one of the director's parables of female persecution. OK, maybe it's both. But life is too short for three hours of misanthropy and misogyny.
If Dogville has a reason for importance, it is the astonishing all-star ensemble who try very hard to put life into their cardboard characters and make this silly film work.
What Lars von Trier has achieved is avant-gardism for idiots. From beginning to end, Dogville is obtuse and dislikable, a whimsical joke wearing cement shoes. [29 March 2004, p. 103]
I have never seen nothing like Dogville Lars Von Trier made a freaking good movie It’s emotional and visceral and cruel It’d hit you and hit you again
Lars doesn’t hesitate to show us his vision of the world This is a movie that show pure performance Lars doesn’t need fancy stuff or buildings to make the world talk about him He’s just a genius
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I wouldnt recommend this film unless you are really into dramatic arts. The movie has a good story and characters. But it is filmed a strange way like a stage act. And not filmed like a normsl movie on real like locations. They talk a lot about the beautiful Mountains around the village but you wont see one at all. The film is also to long. It would have been better if it was 30 or 60 minutes shorters. Longdreaded
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Not about human nature, about psychopaths
Dogville lays its foundations on a succession of events that could only happen within a group of a dozen people with total lack of empathy. The whole argument of the movie depends on no character with common sense showing up, which pulverizes the idea that what is being talked about is human nature. It is, however, a good exemplification of psychopathic behaviour and how the author wishes that it wouldn't exist. The film also has a very over-the-line approach with ****, suggesting that it is excusable because its perpetrators don't know any better. The tone is not towards the victim being able to find forgiveness to give, but towards acceptance for rapists to act like they do. Overall, it is a movie that thinks it is doing more than what it actually is doing, but is still an interesting view on the psychopathic psique, however disgusting in its approach to ****.
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Production Company
Zentropa Entertainments,
Isabella Films B.V.,
Something Else B.V.,
Memfis Film,
Trollhättan Film AB,
Pain Unlimited GmbH Filmproduktion,
Sigma Films,
Zoma Films Ltd.,
Slot Machine,
Liberator Productions,
Film i Väst,
Arte France Cinéma,
France 3 Cinéma,
WDR/Arte [de],
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS),
YLE TV1,
Norsk TV2 AS,
Edith Film Oy,
Spillefilmkompaniet 4 1/2,
Fjeldabe Films AS,
Invicta Capital,
TV 1000,
Planet Pictures,
Canal+,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Eurimages,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
CoBo Fonds,
Foundation for Audiovisual Production,
Nederlands Filmfonds,
Finnish Film Foundation,
European Regional Development Fund,
4 1/2 Film,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Mar 26, 2004
Duration 2 h 58 m
Rating R
Tagline A quiet little town not far from here.
Website
http://www.golem.es/dogville
Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 5 Wins & 5 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
