Dogville
Fleeing from a mob boss that seeks to kill her, Grace, a young courageous girl, who goes in the small town of Colorado, where people accept her and believe that she is innocent, but she has to work for them, in order to hide her, but incidents come to challenge her, when the people of the town want to betray her for a reward.
28 August 1930, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
10 September 1931, Toledo, Ohio, USA
4 May 1967, Budapest, Hungary
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
15 April 1958, New York City, New York, USA
3 March 1957, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
27 September 1960, Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
26 March 1940, The Bronx, New York, USA
27 May 1971, Harlesden, London, England, UK
9 February 1938, Sweden
21 August 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
14 February 1932, Stockholm, Sweden
25 February 1970, New York City, New York, USA
16 April 1957, Lundby, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
July 30, 2007
This minimalist, digital-video-shot film has its own cinematic flash and thunder, and does things only movies can do.June 21, 2007
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.May 02, 2007
After about an hour, the novelty wears off, and you're aching to see an actual animal and real shrubs. After two hours, you feel disappointed when you realize that this wouldn't even make a good play. After three hours, it's downright infuriating.October 18, 2008
Thought provoking with its dense and intense themes, Dogville highlights the best and the worst in us all; the emotions it agitates are hard to shake.August 01, 2004
What Lars von Trier has achieved is avant-gardism for idiots.April 29, 2009
[Director] Trier attempts to pass this off as art, when really it's just ridiculous.May 28, 2004
Fascinating for a while but, in the end, just sleep-inducing.September 26, 2005
For all of "Dogville's" strengths -- its powerful performances, the ingenious staging, how quickly and completely the audience accepts its stylized reality -- its take-home message is, ultimately, measly.June 03, 2008
These elements come together to form a movie that is clinically ironic but also unique, inspired, and quite sublime.August 07, 2004
There's nothing static about [Von Trier's] technique, but everything else about the movie is dreary and closed off.May 13, 2004
It's a tough sit through tough questions.January 26, 2006
Ambitious, intriguing but fatally self-important ...