Manderlay
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In Theaters : 2005
DVD Release : 08 August, 2006 |
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Beginning last night, and passing into this day, I watched "Dogville" and its' sequel, "Manderlay." I was hoping for something along the lines of Claude Berri's "Germinal" by way of John Sayles' "Matewan."
Given:
1. that "Dogville" suffers terribly from its' slow pace,
2. that any sense of continuity between the two films suffers terribly from the loss of Kidman (replaced by a very limited Bryce Dallas Howard) and Caan (who was replaced by Willem Dafoe).
2. Von Trier's (and his teams') obvious ability as a director, as evinced by the power of their "Breaking the Waves," and other films ...
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3. That Von Trier's treatment of his socio-politcal themes (forgiveness and compassion have limits, ultimately power, even dignity, comes from the barrel of a gun, the unexpected outcomes of attempts at social engineering abroad) are pointed, Bergman-bleak and have some validity as critiques of American's bungling and costly efforts to influence events abroad?
4. That it's a goddamn shame Von Trier hadn't decided to drop his theatrical conceit (of adapting the modernist staging of Thorton Wilder's "Our Town") and chosen to shoot these scripts more naturalistically (like Terrance Malick's "Days of Heaven") ? The theatricality of the staging limited the effectiveness of the storytelling medium in both films. These scripts are solid agitprop, and would've made for some solid, if didactic, even operatic, visceral filmmaking. They would have made Von Trier the next Costa-Gravis.
6. That - as it stands - we'll likely never see the third part of the trilogy realized on film?
7. And finally, that I can be a terribly pretentious sod? |
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