Claes Kastholm Hansen, Colin Gilder, Lars von Trier

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Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Lars von Trier

Release Date: January 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004

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  • June 14, 2009
    Lars Von Trier?s second feature film, this film is extremely experimental and of little interest otherwise. Shot on cheap black and white film stock (parts of it make Clerks look like Black Hawk Down), the film features Von Trier playing himself writing a movie intercut with ima...( read more)ges of the movie he?s writing. The plot about the writing very boring and the story that their writing is incoherently disjointed by the nature of the project. The film is filled with odd quirks like the decision to have the film?s title as a watermark in the upper left corner of the screen throughout the whole film for no conceivable reason. I checked it out to cross a Von Trier flick off my ?to see? list (been investigating the guy since his latest caused a stir at Cannes) but this thing is a big miss.
  • June 4, 2009
    Apocalyptic manifesto,the last 20 minutes are what our subculture today should have been: decadent in a vicious square of thoughts.And here is the wizard's illumination,a plot where what's seen isn't less real than what's felt.
  • August 28, 2009
    WEB. Lars von Trier y su colaborador Niels Vorsel deben haber supuesto que son personas carismáticas y que su proceso creativo es fascinante para haber hecho este experimento tipo 8 1/2 y haber mostrado tanta autosatisfacción mientras lo hacían. Uno o dos momentos inspirados no c...( read more)ompensan por el tedio que sobrecoge a esta película cuyo más conspicuo rasgo es la vagancia (su secuencia de apertura la delata a posteriori). / Lars von Trier and his collaborator Niels Vorsel must have supposed they are very charismatic people and that their creative process is fascinating in order to have done this 8 1/2-type experiment and shown so much self-satisfaction while doing it. One or two inspired moments do not compensate the tedium that overtakes this movie, whose most conspicuous attribute is laziness (its opening sequence tells on it a posteriori).
  • January 2, 2009
    I wouldn't watch this on a bet. On the other hand, I guess, if von Trier's other films are similar, it would make for a good insomnia cure.
  • September 8, 2008
    "A good film should be like a pebble in your shoe"

    If you can wait til the final scene, it's worth it, but if not, it's understandable. Some haunting images though, even if the title of the film is over every frame, lest you forget your watching a m...(read more) ovie...., mov...( read more)es a lot faster than "Element Of Crime" anyway. And the last scene really is unforgettable.

    The horrors of screen-writing, a plauge on all mankind.
  • November 28, 2007
    Dans le genre 24 jours après... pendant... ou avant... mais avec un réalisateur de talent et 20 ans plus tôt. Il y a une scène authentique ou Lars Von trier, qui joue aussi le rôle du personnage principal visite une morgue. Gros plan sur un medecin qui ouvre le cou d'un cadavre. ...( read more)Je me disait bon... comme d'habitude ils vont tous faire pour montrer sans montrer. résultat : GROS PLAN. Et bravo pour la musique de Wagner en image.
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I generally avoid horror movies.
  • October 7, 2007
    This is truly a cinematic masterpiece. The performances are outstanding and the blurred lines between fiction and reality works fantastically.
  • June 19, 2007
    many dislike it, but i god damn love it!
  • January 29, 2007
    an experimental film for those who love Trier...

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