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- Fleeing mobsters in Model Ts, a beautiful urbanite (Nicole Kidman) finds refuge in an isolated township at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. With the help of the resident philosopher and aspiring writer (Paul Bettany), she ingratiates herself with the dozen locals, only to find herself subjected to the pendular whims of their mercy and malice.
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It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman hiding from mobsters, who arrives in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.
Apr 14, 2023 · Kidman’s character is raped by nearly all the male townspeople and at one point shackled with a ball and chain around her neck, dragging herself across the bare floor, prostrate to von Trier’s...
- Ryan Lattanzio
One interpretation I can think is that, since Dogville is a small town, the fact that it has no walls is a way to represent how in small towns everyone knows one another, and what they do. So it shows how they are all complicit in what happens to Grace, and their hypocrisy is highlighted.
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
Set in the midst of the Depression, Dogville (2003) is an engrossing account of the machinations of human behavior in a town “rotten from the inside out.”
Dogville is a 2003 minimalist drama film directed by Lars von Trier and starring, among others, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson and Lauren Bacall. It's based on the poem "Jenny die Seeräuberbraut" ("Pirate Jenny" or "The Black Freighter") from Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.
Warning: Spoilers. On the Great Depression, the fragile and beautiful Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in Dogville, a small town in Colorado, escaping from the mob. Tom Henson (Paul Bettany), a young local man, welcomes and introduces her to the distrustful community.
