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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 24, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicole Kidman & Paul Bettany | |
Performer: | Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson, Jean-Marc Barr, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt, Željko Ivanek, Chloë Sevigny & Udo Kier | |
Directed by | Lars von Trier | |
Edited by | Molly Malene Stensgaard | |
Screenwriting by | Lars von Trier | |
Produced by | Vibeke Windelov | |
Executive Production by | Peter Aalbaek Jensen |
Entertainment Reviews:
For its exuberance and its difference, its fine performances and its devastating finale, Dogville is essential viewing.
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London Evening Standard
[Lars von Trier] is a ruthless provocateur with a practical joker's sensibility.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
These elements come together to form a movie that is clinically ironic but also unique, inspired, and quite sublime.
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Paste Magazine
Rating: A+ --
An exceptionally literary film that at the same time employs extremely theatrical set design. Leave it to the mad genius of Denmark to kick cinema's ass once again.
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Film Scouts
Von Trier's occasional static overhead shots are strangely beautiful...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
This minimalist, digital-video-shot film has its own cinematic flash and thunder, and does things only movies can do.
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eFilmCritic.com
[A] stunning slap-in-the-face film....[T]here is much to love in this nervy fable...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression in the Rocky Mountains, DOGVILLE is Lars von Trier's comment on Americana and his uniquely perverse view of small town life. With period costumes, a narrative that reads like a naughty OUR TOWN, and flashes of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER--which is being read by one of the characters--von Trier sets the scene. Using nothing more than a black floor on which white chalk lines and labels mark out houses and landmarks such as the mine and the store, the film is essentially a play. With only minimal props, the emphasis is on the script and the performances.
Dogville is a tiny town consisting of just seven households and 15 adults total. Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) is the resident philosopher, who plans to write a book about morality but has not yet begun. He also serves as the town mayor, holding community meetings in the local church. When a beautiful woman, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in town claiming she is being chased by thugs, Dogville welcomes her and agrees to harbor her--at cost. Grace must prove herself to Dogville's residents, first through physical labor, then through friendship, then through utterly astonishing sacrifices that, in classic von Trier style, go way beyond anything viewers might imagine. A bizarre and disturbing film, DOGVILLE features an all-star cast including Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, and narration by John Hurt.
Dogville is a tiny town consisting of just seven households and 15 adults total. Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) is the resident philosopher, who plans to write a book about morality but has not yet begun. He also serves as the town mayor, holding community meetings in the local church. When a beautiful woman, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in town claiming she is being chased by thugs, Dogville welcomes her and agrees to harbor her--at cost. Grace must prove herself to Dogville's residents, first through physical labor, then through friendship, then through utterly astonishing sacrifices that, in classic von Trier style, go way beyond anything viewers might imagine. A bizarre and disturbing film, DOGVILLE features an all-star cast including Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, and narration by John Hurt.
Keywords:
Politics
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Religion
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Rape
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Corruption
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Theatrical Release
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Country
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Gangsters
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Violence
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Small Towns
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Small Town Life
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1930s
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American History
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America
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Essential Cinema