TOP DOG REVERED AS A VISIONARY AND REVILED AS A CINEMATIC SADIST, DIRECTOR LARS VON TRIER HAS EMERGED AS A GLOBAL STAR. BUT WITH HIS LATEST PROJECT HE MAY AT LAST BE OVERPLAYING HIS GREATEST ROLE - HIMSELF.

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: April 18, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

ON A MAP OF THE cultural unconscious, you'd find Lars von Trier's "Dogville" a "Lottery" stone's throw from "Our Town," about two miles as the crow flies from "The Shining"'s Overlook Hotel, 20,000 leagues under Kafka's "Amerika," and the furthest conceivable distance from Middle Earth. Follow the yellowed-myth "Road to Perdition" beyond "The Petrified Forest," then take the last exit to Elm Street: Welcome to Dogville, Colo., population 22, not to be confused with Mudville (though there is no joy here either), a place so godforsaken it makes the town Clint Eastwood painted red and renamed ...

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