Ulrich Jarløv.dk
8Jan12
This was just around the time when she and Tom Cruise were divorcing...
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Matt Turner
9Feb12
Immersive despite its length and minimalism, and told in strokes deeper and broader than it may first appear. Interesting how much satisfaction some people seem to derive from that ending too.
Henrik Schunk
5Feb12
A very interesting movie mirroring the ambivalence of human morale. It is hard to position yourself as the movie ends and that is a very good "illustration" of the specialness we are facing when it comes to deciding what is good and what is evil. A good cast, the mixture of experienced actors and newcomers as well as the different national backgrounds make this an interesting ensemble piece to watch.
Michael Convery
1Feb12
The invisible walls of Dogville cast long shadows in this dark satiric masterpiece, maybe too dark for some to laugh. An alternative title for this film could have been Our Heart, as it is a reinvention of Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, but to a far greater effect.
Line Bissonnette
16Jan12
A well constructed film.; considering the subject and the setting, that wasn't easy to do.
Ulrich Jarløv.dk
8Jan12
It's said that when Trier offered Kidman the part of Grace, he sent her the script along with a note that said- and I'm paraphrasing very unprecisely- "Hi Nicole. Come to sweden, we'll have some fun- you get to kill someone named Tom"! .
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Shelley
11Dec11
a shockingly simple, yet beautiful film dealing with morals. when I saw the "setting" (or lack thereof) I was wondering if this would impact the film. what it did was make us focus on the dialogue and events within Dogville. the story is mesmerizing and as noted below me, three hours go by with out much notice. maybe my least-ranked of Lars' films but still worthwhile. great messages to be found here.
Zach Closs
2Dec11
Easily one of the most thought-provoking and brilliant films of all time. Dogville's moralism is dark and honest. It depicts how the kind and vulnerable few are exploited and used by the common majority, how we justify revenge, how optimism can indeed be a very arrogant thing, and most of all, how we are all slaves to our own nature. A nature that can be primal, brutish, and impossible not to punish.
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Tom Barnard
10Nov11
At first I was unconvinced; by the end I was mesmerised. 3 hours flew by. Brilliance.
JLB
10Oct11
"I've found out that people are the same all over. Greedy as animals. In a small town they're just a bit less successful."
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comeandsee
19Jul11
a modern classic, a masterpiece through and through. a purely anti-capitalist film with each of the members of the town out for themselves, revealing the ugliness of their ambition. nicole kidman is amazing in this film, and becomes her character wholly. the direction is superb too, and the dialogue is always engaging. the entire cast makes this film exactly what it is, a perfect declaration of cinema.
Máté Csóka
21Jun11
I'll give it a 3. It would be a 5 without the ending. I think the village was presented unrealisticly cruel, but even if we presume ppl are so bad then it still isn't morally right to kill them. Since it was a generalization to human behavior the revenge glorified power's brutality against people. Grace should have "run away" or commit suicide in the ending. I really liked the theatrical form with narrator though.
giuseppebarletta
3Jun11
Can you pu the subtitles please? Ps. I'm new, is this the right way of asking?
drmishello
11Apr11
Wow, so beautifully disturbing that you must love it. I was so pleased to see a "happy ending".
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drmishello
29Apr11
Yeah, that's why i used quotation marks ... aldo it was not a happy ending, it feels right.
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the_gallus
6Apr11
Semplicemente divino(a chi piace il genere). Commistione spettacolare tra cinema e teatro.
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Caden Cotard
25Mar11
One of the most beautiful and disturbing indictments of Americana, and it's from a Dane. Whomever it came from, it's one of the most important films of last decade. And it has Nicole Kidman's best performance, so there's that.
