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Dogville

Nicole Kidman plays a beautiful fugitive in Dogville
Nina Caplan|Metro5 April 2012
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MGM Home Entertainment, 15
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Lars Von Trier's latest tapdance around the boundaries of acceptable filmmaking takes us to a small, ailing American town - except, because Von Trier refuses all visual artifice, we're actually presented with a bunch of actors on a bare black set with a few props.


When beautiful fugitive Nicole Kidman comes to town, bossy local writer Paul Bettany determines to get the distrustful townsfolk to help her, as an experiment in human goodness. Naturally, it goes wrong.

Von Trier's philosophical point - reinforced by John Hurt's omniscient voiceover - has to do with the corrupting influence of power. With featurette.

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