Summary
Manderlay/ A History of Violence Cannes CONTROVERSY stalks Cannes like bread stalks butter, and it has now arrived in spades with new films by Lars von Trier and David Cronenberg. Neither represents the best work of the two filmmakers, but both caused severe ructions among the serried rows of international critics.
Von Trier's Manderlay is the sequel to Dogville in which Nicole Kidman appeared as a young girl trying to escape from the activities of her crime-boss father in the rural Midwest of the Thirties. This time played by Bryce Dallas Howard, she travels from there to the Deep South where, in the small town of Manderlay, Alabama, she tries to improve the lot of its black population by teaching them the tenets of democracy.See the full content of this document
Extract
Cheers and Jeers On the Road to Manderlay
Whatever she does, however, turns out badly, since slavery has left a...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
