Manderlay

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dan m Well, this was certainly different. It's a play, but with community college level production value. Willem Dafoe is a movie bookend here, appearing at the very beginning and the end. Bryce Dallas Howard's character is the lead, playing the role of a 1930's gangster's daughter come to "save the day" at a plantation in Alabama which still has slavery going on. It takes an unexpected turn at the end, along with a scene near the end you would've thought would be on BLACKED.com(not that I know what that is.. :ahem:) It's an interesting movie, I'll give it that.. just a tad too long though. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A sort of spiritual succesor to the wonderful film Dogville, Manderlay tells a story about slavery now with racism against black people as its main subject, in many ways surpassing its predecesor in many ways but failing in others. Overall, the movie is not only 1 hour shorter than Dogville, but it also feels more focused and the political and social messages it sends are nicely told under a creative and entretaining plot filled with characters that coudlve been fleshed out way better, but ultimately serve their goal, all wrapped up nicely under Von Triers signature dramatic style and all the high points of a historical drama about slavery. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review alex k My Favorite Film Is 1941's Citizen Kane. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Manderlay is a monumental load of art house horse shit and the worst film Lars von Trier has ever made. It is astonishing how after the arduously misanthropic, but stylistically audacious Dogville, von Trier could have made something this atrocious. Both films use a very minimalist style (both were shot on a single stage with very little set pieces), which alone may bore some people to death, but at least Dogville had even a notion of story, some fine acting and thoughtful, if cynical, ideas. Manderlay has none of these; an interesting concept perhaps, but the acting is anemic, the story uninteresting, and Anthony Dod Mantle, who usually is a very good cinematographer, seems to have been continually drunk while shooting the film. Say what you will about von Trier and his originality and audacity as a filmmaker, but this film is an excruciatingly boring botch-up that I will never, ever watch again. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting, but character challenged politically charged "what if?". Like all of Trier's stuff, this is pure venting but it lacks the satisfaction felt from Dogville; going for narrow-mindedness over actually exploring the premise fairly. Still, it's a fine watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member En skarp film med mange budskaber om USA. Bryce Dallas Howard, Danny Glover og Isaach De Bankolé gør det super, og trådn bliver fulgt meget godt fra 'Dogville'. Samtidig har filmen en mere skarp slutning end sin forgænger. Absolut en seværdig og mindeværdig film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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