Bryce Dallas Howard, Chloë Sevigny, Danny Glover
Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. By chance their cars stop in...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 8, 2006
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June 30, 2007Lars Von Trier repeats his famous and tedious Dogville formula. nevertheless, an interesting and thought-provoking microcosm.
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April 5, 2007Lars von Trier's pessimism and hatred for the American way can be a real annoyance. I put up with it in Dogville because the storytelling was so good. His message is so heavy-handed here that I can't imagine anyone enjoying it anymore than you would an Anti-American lecture.
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December 12, 2006The mid-point of Lars von Trier's 'American trilogy', Manderlay follows up Dogville in it's presentation of the hypocrisy of a fictional-but-it-most-certainly-could-be-real town in the good ol' US of A.
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August 1, 2009Lars von Trier is a master filmmaker, this can hardly be argued. Everything else aside, the way he uses the set and ligthning and directs his actors in Dogville and Manderlay is haunting and a feast for every film connoisseur.
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September 12, 2009Lars von Trier es un GRAN director, sin duda alguna. Pero esta pelicula tiene sus ventajas y desventajas: primero, el recurso utilizado en Dogville funciono excelentemente bien, pero como Peter Brook dijo en uno de sus libros, un recurso repetido no funciona como la vez primera, ...( read more)
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June 8, 2009PRobably a lot of people won't be able to get past the fact that they are all acting as if it were really a stage play, but It was really good.
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May 21, 2009shot on a stage but i think the story is hilarious. people thinking or pretending to think they are still slaves when slavery has been over for years LOL
Critic Reviews
May 12, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
February 16, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The crucial difference between Manderlay and the almost unbearable Dogville is not that his politics have changed, but that his sense of mercy for the audience has been awakened. full review
February 10, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It is without exaggeration one of the most blindingly boring films I've seen in years. full review
January 30, 2006
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
I am glad that [Von Trier] exists, to decry our sins, but, with another sequel to come (Manderlay is the centerpiece of a trilogy), I am even gladder that he is one of a kind. full review
January 26, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Controversy comes as naturally to Danish director Lars von Trier as breathing, and he'll use any means to achieve his goal. full review
January 25, 2006
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com
One should be happy to learn "Manderlay" is better than "Dogville," if only because it is forty-five minutes shorter. full review
January 25, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Von Trier's hand isn't as sure in Manderlay as it was in Dogville. His film exasperates and illuminates in equal measure. But no film addict will want to miss his cinematic brilliance. full review
October 8, 2005
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
With "Manderlay," Lars von Trier has finally lost me. He has made an avid fan feel tired and abused. full review
October 5, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
A victim of its own coolly artificial aesthetic. full review
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December 23, 2007we have a new "Macarthur " age ! some idiots in USA
attacked to the director from the age of "Dogville "
.and they dint stay in bad critics . they said to Nicole Kidman to leave the film , because her carrier was in danger ..and now i m thinking that from 2004 ,Kidman did not had a good role . an actress who played in the masterpieces "eyes wide shut , the others , Hours , and that lovely musical "
many had accused Lars , he had anti-American thesis even from the movie "Dancing in the darkness "
so Manderlay was not an accessible film . so the huge companies did not promoted it , i dont know if this film went to theaters in USA and in how many , but in many countries did not appear ,in Greece came , before while ,as a DVD
I hope that these idiots { and i speak for a few people } to leave art free . the free audience in the only who can criticize art
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