With the international success of Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000), Lars von Trier has established himself as a one of the most provocative and daring film directors working today. The founding father of Dogma 95, he made the movement's most controversial film, The Idiots (1998), and has played a leading role in the recent resurgence of Danish cinema. Yet despite his success, von Trier remains something of an polarising and enigmatic figure hailed as the new Godard b...

« Je pense, comme Gilles Jacob, Président du festival de Cannes, que Lars von Trier est l'un des quatre ou cinq plus grands metteurs en scène vivants. C'était une première raison de m'intéresser à lui. La seconde est plus personnelle : j'étais curieux de connaître la vérité de ce « provocateur timide » chez lequel se combinent étrangement sincérité et calcul, puritanisme et érotisme, goût de la métaphysique et sens du marketing, génie et névrose.» Pendant deux ans, Jean-Claude Lamy a donc ...

Une fiche de référence sur Breaking the Waves, un chef-d'oeuvre de Lars von Trier.Le réalisateur danois Lars von Trier, né en 1956, s'était fait remarquer pour son goût « maniériste » des exercices de style formels, qui s'expriment dans des films très apprêtés, remplis de références cinéphiliques et dénués de sentimentalisme. Aussi est-ce une surprise lorsqu'on le découvre capable d'écrire et de diriger un drame aussi prenant que Breaking the Waves

The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation, as with Bess in Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in Nymphomaniac. At other times, it is the women in his films who are dominant or...

This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars von Trier identifies recurring formal elements in von Trier's oeuvre and discusses the formal complexity of his films under the rubric of the post-Brechtian. Through an in depth formal analysis, the book shows that Brecht is more important to von Trier's work than most critics acknowledge...

Siempre polémica, atravesada por tremendas tensiones formales y narrativas, la escritura fílmica de Lars von Trier es una de las grandes experiencias cinematográficas de las últimas décadas. Su cine está a medio camino entre la carcajada bufonesca y la náusea más sincera, siempre suspendido entre una autoconsciente idiotez y una lucidez crítica con las estructuras ideológicas del mundo en el que vivimos fuera de toda duda. Melancolía supone uno de los grandes hitos de su carrera, una suert...

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur’s symbols of evil, myth, and hermeneutics of revelation.The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema, inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled, while challenging audien...

Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start—but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013–14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) brandished the cinematic virtuosity von Trier once banned under the Dogme 95 Manifesto while subjecting audiences to “extreme” cinema. Following von Trier’s experience of clinical depression in 2006...

Lars von Trier built a reputation as a provocateur from the start—but in the late 2000s, he entered an even more inflammatory phase. Amid Cannes controversies, Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013–14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) brandished the cinematic virtuosity von Trier once banned under the Dogme 95 Manifesto while subjecting audiences to “extreme” cinema. Following von Trier’s experience of clinical depression in 2006...

This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier’s distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier’s cinema beyond the perceived gender division, elevating the director’s image above being a mere provocateur. By raising fundamental questions about woman, sexuality, and desire, Elbeshlawy shows that Trier’s cinematic Woman is an attempt at creating an image of a genderless subject that is not inhibited by the...

The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another. The book addresses von Trier’s films in order of their release. The earlier chapters discuss his Golden Heart trilogy and USA: Land of Opportunities series by addressing issues of potential misogyny, ethical critique, and racial justice. The later chapters focus on his Depression Trilogy and address the undermining of gender binaries, the psychoanalytic meaning o...

Lars von Trier hører uden tvivl til blandt dansk filmhistories største kunstnere, og hans film, der spænder fra det elitære til det bredt folkelige, men stadig eksperimenterende, har indbragt ham i massevis af danske og udenlandske priser. I "Lars von Triers film – tvang og befrielse" gennemgår filmforsker Peter Schepelern Lars von Triers karriere og kunstneriske udvikling og ser nærmere på hans films tilblivelse, manuskript metode og produktion. Den danske filmforsker og forfatter Peter S...