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...Stephen King wandered into a video store and picked up the Danish film Riget (The Kingdom). The thriller, directed by Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) and set in a haunted hospital, spooked even the King of Creepy. "I thought, We really ought to do this for American TV," he recalls...
That, at least, was the solution proposed in the two works that dominated the 56th Cannes Film Festival. One picture came in with all the hype: Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier's upending of Our Town into the tale of a small-minded Colorado community that torments a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) and fully earns its violent comeuppance. The other film arrived with little fanfare but walked away with the major awards. Elephant, which transposes the Columbine, Colo., massacre to an Oregon high school, won the Palme d'Or as top film and the Best Director prize...
...even more gorgeous strollers down the C?te d'Azur's Croisette. Inside the Grand Palace, directors had their minds on apocalypse: in the Palme d'Or winner, Gus Van Sant's Elephant, an ordinary day in an Oregon high school erupts into massacre, Columbine-style. In Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like an Old Testament God in an I'm-sick-of-Sodom mood, has everyone gunned down. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended...
...seen and sold. Hollywood will go anywhere to sell its product, and so will its grand old icons. Who came to Cannes? Just Clint Eastwood - he practically is America. And Arnold Schwarzenegger - he practically owns it. Best Post-Festival Conspiracy Theory: The gay-Mafia rumor. Though Lars Von Trier's Dogville was deemed front-runner for the Palme d'Or, Gus Van Sant's Elephant took the prize. So the festival did end with the an openly homosexual French director (jury president Patrice Chéreau) presenting the award to an openly homosexual American director (Van Sant...
...Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether...