Manderlay
Bryce Dallas Howard resumes the role that Nicole Kidman previously played, as the daughter of a 1930s gangster in the deep South. She becomes enraged with the attitude of the owners of a cotton plantation towards slavery. But, always the trickster, director von Trier cheekily implies that black Americans are complicit in their own oppression.
Reviews & comments
Wall Street Journal
pressHate is too strong an emotion to spend on such a clumsy, bloodless broadside against human foibles in general and American follies in particular...
The New Yorker
pressIn truth, von Trier is not so much a filmmaker as a misanthropic mesmerist, who uses movies to bend the viewer to his humorless will...
The New York Times
pressTo warm to Manderlay, the chilly second installment of Lars von Trier's not-yet-finished three-part Brechtian allegory examining United States history, you must be willing to tolerate the derision and moral arrogance of a snide European intellectual thumbing his nose at American barbarism...
Roger Ebert
pressI wouldn't go so far as to claim Manderlay is fun to watch. Von Trier, who can made compulsively watchable films ("Breaking the Waves"), has found a style that will alienate most audiences. Maybe it's necessary...
Premiere Magazine
pressAnybody can make a movie that's anti-slavery. But to make a movie that's explicitly anti-democracy-that's something...
Empire Magazine
pressUnstintingly raw and cynical, this disconcerting and deeply affecting State Of The Union treatise regularly comes dangerously close to caricature...
BBC
pressA bare-bones soundstage, a swipe at US policy, an embattled ginger heroine... Yes, it's the return of Lars von Trier with part two in the trilogy begun by Dogville. Alas, even radical Danish auteurs can fall victim to the law of diminishing returns: like so many follow-ups, Manderlay struggles to recapture its predecessor's startling novelty. Nevertheless, there are still provocations to ponder as gangster's daughter Grace (The Village's Bryce Dallas Howard, stepping in for Nicole Kidman) attempts to reform a community of black slaves...
Wall Street Journal
pressHate is too strong an emotion to spend on such a clumsy, bloodless broadside against human foibles in general and American follies in particular...
The New Yorker
pressIn truth, von Trier is not so much a filmmaker as a misanthropic mesmerist, who uses movies to bend the viewer to his humorless will...
The New York Times
pressTo warm to Manderlay, the chilly second installment of Lars von Trier's not-yet-finished three-part Brechtian allegory examining United States history, you must be willing to tolerate the derision and moral arrogance of a snide European intellectual thumbing his nose at American barbarism...
Roger Ebert
pressI wouldn't go so far as to claim Manderlay is fun to watch. Von Trier, who can made compulsively watchable films ("Breaking the Waves"), has found a style that will alienate most audiences. Maybe it's necessary...
Premiere Magazine
pressAnybody can make a movie that's anti-slavery. But to make a movie that's explicitly anti-democracy-that's something...
Empire Magazine
pressUnstintingly raw and cynical, this disconcerting and deeply affecting State Of The Union treatise regularly comes dangerously close to caricature...
BBC
pressA bare-bones soundstage, a swipe at US policy, an embattled ginger heroine... Yes, it's the return of Lars von Trier with part two in the trilogy begun by Dogville. Alas, even radical Danish auteurs can fall victim to the law of diminishing returns: like so many follow-ups, Manderlay struggles to recapture its predecessor's startling novelty. Nevertheless, there are still provocations to ponder as gangster's daughter Grace (The Village's Bryce Dallas Howard, stepping in for Nicole Kidman) attempts to reform a community of black slaves...
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