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Mar 21, 2014

Out of Frame: Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Though not everyone will enjoy it, the first part of Lars Von Trier’s sex epic, NYMPHOMANIAC, is his most consistently engaging and entertaining film in years.

Nov 11, 2011

Out of Frame: Melancholia

In Lars von Trier’s Cannes hit Melancholia, the director asks, “What does depression feel like?” His answer? “Like a massive rogue planet on a collision course with Earth about to wipe out all existence.”

Oct 22, 2009

Popcorn & Candy: You Only Hurt the One You Love

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Charlotte Gainsbourg takes a reflective breather between bouts of bloody mayhem in Von Trier’s Antichrist. Antichrist Lars Von Trier must really hate his therapist. That’s the only definite message I can glean for sure from Antichrist, based on what he puts the movie’s resident psychologist, played by Willem Dafoe, through. The doctor and his wife, played…

 
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