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Dogville

2003

Lars von Trier

Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Stellan Skarsgård ...

7.5

69,044

Drama. Thriller A beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What makes 'Dogville' so fascinating, and so troubling, is the tension between the universal and the specific"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An artistically experimental, ideologically apocalyptic blast at American values. Story of how a female on the run is far too indigestible, despite the toplined performance of Nicole Kidman"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Even Von Trier-unbelievers like me (...) had to admit that this was an intriguing, technically accomplished and well-acted piece of work"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Lars von Trier exhibits the imagination of an artist and the pedantry of a crank in 'Dogville' (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"Bold stylistic decisions reinforce a narrative that's underpinned by convincing performances (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career (...) [The director] delivers something rare these days: a film of ideas (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The heroine suffers greatly, but whether she suffers at the hands of humanity or von Trier himself isn't entirely clear"	NEU
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"[What the director] has achieved in technical audacity and precision of expression, he has lost in the art of human connection (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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