Anne Louise Hassing, Bodil J?rgensen, Bodil Jorgensen
Karen, a grieving young woman finds compassion in Stoffer, the leader of a group of young people who attack middle-class sensibilities by pretending to be mentally disabled.
DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000
Stats: 546 reviews
Dark, cruel and utterly hilarious. It will make you uncomfortable and make you laugh at the same time. People often refer to Festen as being the funniest 'alternative' film but I think the Idiots beats it hands down. Brilliant.
This is a really strange movie, but I kind of liked it. I think it kind of ran out of steam near the end, but it was pretty funny. It's hard to imagine someone pulling off a premise like this with any type of skill - I mean, look at The Ringer. I'm not even entirely sure what it ...( read more)
Higly poignant,a decent transgressive behavior over society's....private fraud.Oh Lars,you fell on the Dogme trap you yourself were so proud of.Camera is focusing but without a challenge,an information dot and required elaboration,what can I do with an empty stomach?
Very sickening and irredeemable, especially considering it's pornographic material, but it's somewhat interesting if you watch it in the right mood. I was pretty much just sickened by the whole thing and I hated these char.acters. I can say that I had an easier time watching this...( read more)
Ok, Vinterberg's Festen was a great start to Dogme 95 but Lars von Trier's Idioterne as the second Dogme 95 film is a huge disappointment, Pretentious & dumb to the core
talking about intellectual masturbation... here comes trier... and you know what ? I think I ll do exactly the same as they do in the movie... just pretending Im an idiot and go get something to eat.
Lars von Trier es un gran director que logra sacar la naturalidad en el actor y hacer que el cine tome vida por su cercania con la realidad. Sin duda, un director que se arriesga y que tiene un estilo bastante caracteristico, en el que generalmente explora mas el mundo interior f...( read more)
Ok, this film deserves a longer review.
There are some great performances in this movie. Also, some scenes are perfectly shocking and the sequence of events is coherent with the growing tension of the plot. Maybe the porny penetration scene was out of place, not becouuse it ...( read more)
My first Von Trier experience, and I was greeted by a complex film about young educated professionals who looks at idiocy as a means to escape reality. The film almost runs like a documentary, filled with natural performances by the unknown actors. At first, it almost runs like a...( read more)
The GOD Father of Dogme film, and this is the very first one project, all you can do is shut out lound "Go get it"...tatally take filmmakeing to a new level.
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