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Synopsis: Presented stylistically as a stage play, Lars Von Trier illustrates true human nature in Dogville. The lonely village for which the film is named is thrown into harmony,...
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- SOUNDSIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan...
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- Mr. Fiction
We continue our look at four films from four different decades starring Nicole Kidman. This one is definitely different, we wrap our heads around Lars Van T...
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- Special Mark Productions
Plot structure. The story of Dogville is told in nine chapters and a prologue, with a one-sentence description of each chapter given in the film, in the vein of such chapter headings in many 19th-century novels. These descriptions are given below.
The end credits, which depict pictures of real impoverished Americans while Bowie's "Young Americans" plays, in view further complicates the line of criticism that Lars von Trier just wanted to ruffle feathers by engineering a ridiculous narrative to justify massacring poor American workers and children.
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town.
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Dogville: Directed by Lars von Trier. With Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr. A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
