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Lars von Trier |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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Born April 30, Copenhagen,
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Key
Production Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands,
Germany, Norway |
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Key Genres:
Drama, Melodrama, Psychological Drama |
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Key
Collaborators: Udo Kier (Character Player),
Vibeke Windelov (Producer), Jean-Marc Barr (Leading Character Player), Molly Malene Stensgaard
(Editor), Tomas Gislason (Screenwriter), Karl Juliusson (Production
Designer), Ernst-Hugo Jaregard (Leading Player), Niers Vorsel (Screenwriter), Peter Aalbaek
Jensen (Producer), Robby Muller (Cinematographer) |
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Recommended: The
Kingdom II [TV] (1997) [co-directed by Morten Arnfred], Dancer
in the Dark (2000)^ |
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Worth
a Look: Element of Crime (1984), Breaking
the Waves (1996)*, The Five Obstructions (2003)^ [co-directed by Jørgen Leth) |
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Approach with Caution:
Europa (1991), The Kingdom [TV] (1994), Dogville (2003)^ |
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Duds:
Idiots (1998), Antichrist (2009) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Lars
von Trier Web Space ] [
Lars von Trier
Fan Site ] [
World Films Biography ] [
Bright
Lights Film Journal Article ] [
Sight
& Sound Interview (1996) ] [
LarsVonTrier.net
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Boston Phoenix Interview (2009) ]
[
Sight & Sound Article (2011)
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Books:
[
Lars
von Trier ] [
Lars
von Trier: Interviews ] [
Dogme
Uncut: Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, and the Gang That Took on
Hollywood ] [
Trier on von Trier ] |
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"A natural provocateur, Lars
Trier added the "von" to his name at the age of 20, less as a
homage to
Stroheim or
Sternberg than as an act of
effrontery and mischief; this reportedly deeply neurotic, phobic
individual is also a daring exhibitionist. This propensity for
pushing his ego to the fore has made von Trier a controversial
figure, but also, with
Pedro Almodóvar and
Emir Kusturica
one of the three most acclaimed European filmmakers of his
generation... Is he an arch manipulator and a charlatan? Von
Trier has certainly been guilty of the first charge, but his
probing, deterministic view of man's inhumanity to man has an
appropriate moral severity, and his bold, experimental aesthetic
impulses are undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the European art
film tradition"
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Tom Charity (The Rough Guide to Film, 2007) |
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"A leading figure
in European avant-garde, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier is
happy when being as reviled as admired. A flamboyant figure, his
films are acts of provocation, alternately exhilarating and
dismaying, and unmatched in their bold experimentation,
stylistic range, conceptual rigor, and disturbing intensity." -
Linda Badley (501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers, 2007) |
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"Von Trier is an eccentric,
provocative film-maker with a penchant for extreme stylistic
strategies... His early films are overblown attempts to
create a dazzlingly strange, sinister world, but in the more
recent Breaking the Waves and The Idiots, simpler
narratives and closer attention to individual characters suggest
there is perhaps a major film-maker behind the emphatic irony
and insistent, bludgeoning technique. With conviction, he may
achieve greatness." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
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"I
think it's important that we all try to give something to this
medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most
efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a
cinema." - Lars von Trier |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include Epidemic (1987), Manderlay (2005), The
Boss of it All (2006), and Melancholia (2011)^. |
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"With
a back-story (almost) as singular as his films, Danish
director Lars von Trier was one of the most exceptional
filmmakers to burst onto the international film scene in the
1990s. Unapologetically confident in his artistry and an
unabashed provocateur, von Trier could kick up a fuss about
his behavior, but his stylistic brio, extreme narratives,
and ability with actors prevented such films as Europa
(1991), The Kingdom (1994), Breaking the Waves
(1996), and Dancer in the Dark (2000) from being
eclipsed by their creator. Even as he openly sought a larger
audience by making films in English, von Trier's success
helped resurrect Scandinavian cinema's international
prominence; his intense fear of flying ensured he'd never
"go Hollywood."
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Lucia Bozzola,
Allmovie |
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●
Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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100 Essential Directors (Pop
Matters) |
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Ranked
37th on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors |
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Ranked 14th on Film Comment's list of the 25 Best
Directors of the Decade (2000-2009) |
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● The Wild Bunch... 50 of the Movies' Maddest Visionaries |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Ingmar Bergman |
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Susanne Bier (external link) |
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Carl Dreyer |
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Bruno Dumont |
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Jean-Luc Godard |
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Jørgen Leth (external link) |
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David Lynch |
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Lukas
Moodysson |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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Thomas Vinterberg (external link) |
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Andrzej Zulawski |
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