Note: The following is Dogme 95 film review where the writer of this review has chosen to write a film review in 1000 or less. The idea of the review is to strip down the aesthetics and excess of previous film reviews. In spirit to the Dogme 95 ...
Pros: Unusual look into the insane world of underground sociological groups Cons: Lack of character exploration and confused tone shatters the Dogme mystique that The Celebration carried with it
The Idiots is the second film from the Dogme 95 company, a group of 4 Danish directors who took a “vow of chastity” towards filmmaking. They have a set of ten rules (worded not unlike the Ten Commandments) stressing location shooting only, no...
Pros: Innovated filmmaking technique, social relevance Cons: Jerky camera action may annoy an audience retaining certain assumptions
The Idiots is Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier's 1998 exploration of normality as a social system, and the constraints it places on individuals to behave in prescribed ways even under abnormal circumstances. The film chronicles the escapades of a small...
Pros: Provocative, raw, and powerful. Cons: Decidedly for grown-ups, may shock.
The Idiots, directed by Lars von Trier (Breaking The Waves) is the second 'official' Dogme 95 film to have appeared. Unlike Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (Celebration), which is more cinematic, this film adopts a...
Pros: Dogma method, brave filmmaking Cons: difficult to sit through
It took two years for Lars von Trier’s follow up to “Breaking the Waves” (1996) to make it to America because it contains a lot of nudity. While every other country in the world wasn’t bothered by it, the U.S. censors were apparently driven into quite a...
Pros: Cathartic, Fresh. Cons: It will not come to your city.
The Idiots is a film about a small group of individuals who live together with the purpose of discovering their "inner idiot"--or embracing their deformities--by acting as though they were retarted. The conflicts and consequences that this...
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