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...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—the setting is merely a backdrop for the message. A misanthropic deconstruction of Thornton Wilder??s 1938 play Our Town, Dogville draws very much on theatrical (and literary) conventions in order to depart from more traditional cinematic renderings and privilege the message over the medium...
Dogville springs not only from von Trier’s imagination, but from our own—like in Wilder??s town, there are no sets. The action was filmed on a Swedish soundstage, the floor marked with white outlines where houses, bushes, and even a dog should be, abstractions the characters accept as concrete structures but which the audience must build in their own minds...
...children’s classic and cautionary tale. You know the drill: Five greedy kids win a tour of a candy factory, where they are punished for their cravings in visually imaginative ways. Add in some Burt Bacharach songs, some garish ’70s set design, and Gene Wilder??s repressed, vaguely psychotic turn in the title role, and you’ve got a couple hours of kitschy fun to take in after you’re demolished your pumpkin pie. 3, 5:15, 7 and 9:45 p.m. Brattle Theater...
...with my teachers all the time.” Yet in spite of almost all being of age, only Palmer-Amaning helped himself to a Heineken care of FM’s expense account. Five of the others, ordering over the fortuitous din of Kim Wilder??s Kids in America, went for a rather different beverage. “Diet Coke, please...