Reviews of Dogville (2003) and related work

• Sequel: Manderlay (2005)

Dogville (2003)

Genuinely cruel. I like von Trier’s favourite idea of failure despite good intentions, but the intentions here are not good to begin with, and the caricatured misery just drags on.

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‣ Manderlay (2005)

A slightly more productive use of irony.

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