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Manderlay

2005

Lars von Trier

Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankole, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe ...

7.3

10,202

Drama This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation. Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now they were heading south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a better film than 'Dogville'; in fact it is the film he should have made instead of 'Dogville'. The action is cleverly constructed and strongly played (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Who, beyond the gifted Danish filmmaker's ardent cult of admirers, will want to watch it?"	NEG
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"[It] comes dangerously close to caricature. But that's forgiveable - parables often have to jettison subtlety to make their case (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[This] film exasperates and illuminates in equal measure. But no film addict will want to miss [von Trier's] cinematic brilliance (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Perhaps the saddest thing about 'Manderlay' is how poorly von Trier treats his actors, who are so bludgeoned by the concept and the format they can scarcely breathe."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is 38 minutes shorter than 'Dogville' (...) and the story is more clearly and strongly told (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Matthew Leyland BBC	"While the content feels relevant, the ironic, Brechtian style seems like yesterday's news. Individual scenes strike a nerve (...) but don't add up to a dramatically satisfying whole (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The film fails, partly because what it has to say is so muddled and inadequate, partly because – as cinema and as drama – it is so dull."	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"[It] is a powerful enough piece to attract the critical debate that would allow it to match or even surpass the patchy arthouse success of its predecessor"	POS

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