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Much has been made of the supposedly anti-American attitude behind Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier’s (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) latest portrait of a woman wronged by society. But even as the action unfolds in a Rocky Mountains village of von Trier’s invention, the film’s statement about the nature of humanity is clearly far more general than a shrill denunciation of the American dream or George W. Bush’s administration. Like many a great dramatic work—think Richard III or Oedipus Rex?...
...Problem Too The controversy over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has finally come to Denmark. The country's center-right government is reeling from charges that it knew there were no WMD in Iraq before joining the U.S-led war last year. The charges come from a Danish intelligence officer, Major Frank Söholm Grevil, who lost his job last month after leaking intelligence assessments to a newspaper. Grevil maintains that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen received at least 10 reports before the start of the war suggesting the coalition was unlikely to discover WMD. Fogh Rasmussen later informed...
Much has been made of the supposedly anti-American attitude behind Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier’s (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) latest portrait of a woman wronged by society...
...while, but the best and largest studies have shown that not to be the case. Eighteen months ago, a giant study of practically every child in Denmark found no causative link between autism and the so-called MMR shot--the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. Another big Danish study last week found no link between various childhood vaccines and Type 1 diabetes...
...only endured but also apparently savored her 17-month incarceration while making Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, is just the actress to see directorial fiat as a fast car worth strapping herself into. The result of this fascinating collision is Dogville, for which the notoriously kooky Danish auteur lured a distinguished cast to Scandinavia (he refuses to fly) so they could pretend to be in an American town in the 1930s...