LARS VON TRIER | DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE | 2009 | 108 MIN | NR | ENGLISH
A grieving couple (Lars von Trier’s chief penitents Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to a secluded woodland cabin where chaos soon reigns in the opening descent of the Depression Trilogy.
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Part of the Philadelphia Film Society's Summer of Trilogies : Lars von Trier Depression Trilogy - Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac Vol 1 & 2
After a brief stay at THE KINGDOM and taking a trip to the USA for his incomplete “Land of Opportunity” trilogy, Trier sought to depict the chronic suffering of depression and grief through three very different films about a doomed marriage, the end of the world, and a woman’s complicated sexual awakening.
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