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| Jan 29, 2009Urban Cinefile
Visually, structurally and emotionally pushing all the boundaries, Lars von Trier's Dogville is a striking and haunting film about power, corruption, betrayal and revenge.
Long, yet as concentrated in its power as high octane fuel, Dogville plays and satisfies on many levels, and yet is simple enough as a good yarn - with a twist.
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| Sep 11, 2008Urban Cinefile
Dogville is, above all, a film and as a film, Im satisfied with the form and the content and the acting.
Its an emotional film.
I decided that Dogville would be in the Rocky Mountains because if you have never been there, that sounds fantastic.
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| Feb 16, 2006Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is 38 minutes shorter than "Dogville" (although none too fleeting at 139 minutes), and the story is more clearly and strongly told.
I intend to reschedule my professional activities in order to rediscover my original enthusiasm for film.
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| Feb 10, 2006San Francisco Chronicle
The film is obvious, weak and scattered and seems more like a practical joke than a work of genuine passion.
This is a wretched piece of work, and all the more to be regretted for the bad light it casts on "Dogville.
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| Sep 04, 2004Boston Globe
He tells us what a disjointed community Dogville is, with a little over a dozen adults and several children living there.
The movie doesn't mock its heroine, whom Nicole Kidman plays with cunning innocence; it loathes the simple, exploiting folk (including Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall, and Stellan Skarsgard) around her.
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| May 17, 2004Deseret News
The difference is "Our Town" uncovers its themes throughout the course of the play, whereas "Dogville" says everything it wants to say early on, but then repeats it all endlessly (even underscoring thoughts with a rather nasty little jab during the closing credits). ... Full Review
| Apr 23, 2004Movies into Film.com
The nagging subtext of Dogville -what makes me sick about it-looms in von Trier's unclothed joy in squandering these treasures.
It's a murderous, jealous, highly educated yet deeply uninformed spirit that was plain to me, one that usurps the calls of "anti-Americanism" occasioned by Dogville 's U.S. release.
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| Apr 23, 2004Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
But then, in just one of the many references to animal instincts, Dogville begins to "bare its teeth.
Life in Dogville is forever changed the day Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives, a fugitive from gangsters who seem desperate to find her.
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| Apr 22, 2004The Portland Mercury, OR
Only in the final act--when Grace is made to stagger through Dogville dragging a rusty flywheel chained to her neck (complete with mini cowbell)--do things tilt toward the totally ridiculous.
The manner of the film is resolutely, unapologetically heavy-handed.
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| Apr 16, 2004St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In addition to the fearless Kidman, the film has a stellar, if understated, supporting cast, including Chloe Sevigny, Jeremy Davies, Philip Baker Hall and Patricia Clarkson, with narration by John Hurt.
True, the bare-bones artifice is a violation of von Trier's "Dogme" credo, which rigidly insists on cinematic naturalism.
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