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Chapter 2. In which Grace follows Tom's plan and embarks upon physical labor. On Tom's suggestion, Grace offers to do chores for the citizens—talking to the lonely, blind Jack McKay, helping to run the small shop, looking after the children of Chuck and Vera, and so forth.
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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Lars von Trier
- 2004-04-23
Lars von Trier exhibits the imagination of an artist and the pedantry of a crank in “Dogville,” a film that works as a demonstration of how a good idea can go wrong. There is potential in the concept of the film, but the execution had me tapping my wristwatch to see if it had stopped.
Apr 14, 2023 · In Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Pirate Jenny” from “The Threepenny Opera,” a peasant hotel maid avenges herself for the cruelty she suffers from her fellow townspeople by imagining a pirate...
- Ryan Lattanzio
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.
Synopsis A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) hides from the criminals who pursue...
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Jan 6, 2004 · Updated 05 February 2004. Contains sexual violence. Controversial, intelligent and daring, Dogville features a career-best performance from Nicole Kidman. She's a woman on the run in 30s America...
