Ben Gazzara,
Blair Brown,
Harriet Andersson,
James Caan,
Jean-Marc Barr
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The beautiful fugitive, Grace, 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 communi...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 24, 2004
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September 2, 2009Stripped down to its raw essentials, Dogville is Dogma at its finest. Surprisingly it still feels like cinema as apposed to theatre. Its probably the most original film of the last decade, and again, totally overlooked and misunderstood. People complain there is something lacking...( read more)
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December 16, 2008While I loved the idea of playing out an entire movie in a stage - play setting (still laughing at the 'gooseberry bushes'), I still feel like this is lacking something. Possibly the story itself is a bit unsatisfactory. Even though the residents of Dogville deserved what they go...( read more)
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June 21, 2008One of my favorite movies. I interpret it to be sort of a story about Mercy and Justice. Humans need understanding and compassion, but they will never learn and become corrupt unless there is justice also. This is told through a sort of allegory like Jesus and God, and how Jes...( read more)
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June 18, 2008Dogville is one of those films where you can respect what a filmmaker is trying to do but doesn't really change the fact that it is an extremely flawed film. I highly respect Lars von Trier attempts to make something revolutionary (It's good to know after watching the awful beyo...( read more)
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February 1, 2010Lars von Trier's theatrical critique of a USA that ignores its own & exploits outsiders is well cast, savagely written & works thrillingly.
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January 30, 2010Amazing party of lightning effects. Impressive play of actors. Great, clear shape of movie.
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January 28, 2010At first I wasn't at all interested in the movie and actually turned it off because of the set. When I sat down to watch it again I really started to enjoy it. Dogville is now one of my favourite movies.
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January 7, 2010There is an issue of how you sustain a belief in morality that doesn't actually have a basis. We all pretend that it does though because the alternative is annihilation, at our own hands. The void is scarier than anything this world could become.
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January 6, 2010Obra-prima, daquelas que geram ruptura cognitiva. Aqui o grande personagem, aquele que sera no final posto a prova, eh o proprio espectador. Eh o desejo deste que Grace canalisa no desfecho da obra, nao de modo a naturaliza-lo, como no cinema comercial, mas a fim de problematizar...( read more)
Critic Reviews
May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
April 16, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A punishing film to sit through, and its rewards may well depend on how much credit you wish to give von Trier for doing something different. Because, for better or worse, Dogville is unlike anything ... full review
April 15, 2004
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dogville is a love-it-or- hate-it experience, but one that will fill a large space in any viewer's imagination. full review
April 9, 2004
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
This is a seriously important film and a huge achievement. full review
April 9, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Dogville can be defended and even praised on pure ideological grounds, but most moviegoers, even those who are sophisticated and have open minds, are going to find it a very dry and unsatisfactory slo... full review
April 2, 2004
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Who but von Trier could make such a film? Who else would dare? full review
March 28, 2004
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
Never rises to the abilities of its impressive cast, and will stretch the boundaries of acceptable tolerance with its intended audience. full review
March 26, 2004
David Edelstein, Slate
The politics of Dogville are on par with a third-rate gangster picture: cheap, opportunistic nihilism, with no enlivening sense of humor. full review
March 25, 2004
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Darkly funny, intellectually challenging and obliquely didactic. full review
March 25, 2004
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Von Trier, light years from the formula doggerel at the multiplex, delivers something rare these days: a film of ideas. full review
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May 16, 2008The whole movie is a masterpiece, the way the story slowly developes, the way human egoism is framed in the characters, and the best of all, the way the end of the movie unmasks arrogance.
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December 11, 2007Dogville . anyone can find many things in this film . i ll speak for one of them . in a film all of us usually support a person . some times is the hero ,sometimes is the bad this is just happen in our brains ...many times the person is different for the watchers , and different the level like/dislike
this is also happens and to the theater ...there is a difficult and the director must be a very talent artist ,trial , when we stay as watchers cool , meaning that no person in the play or film , can gain our sympathy or the opposite ...if you see this movie very carefuly or two times , you have the feeling that all the heroes are the same to you , there is no support for anyone ...
in dogville in my personal opinion i left the theater with this feeling
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