You know when stuff gets weird/disturbing/surrealistic/horrifying/philosophical? I want more of that. Feel free to recommend movies, directors and even TV shows if you feel inspired. (I still haven't watched all of the movies from directors I mentioned but I am doing my best to do so).
I've been a long time fan of von Trier, and recently when I brought him up my partner expressed that it was a name they were familiar with but never really seen any of his movies. I said I would love to watch some with them if they were interested. Thing is, I know von Trier movies can be, well, a lot.
I would love some suggestions from this community on where to start. I'm thinking dancer in the dark or dogville (the movie that sparked my interest in "film as art" when I was a teenager), or maybe meloncholia. They're all very depressing but I think much more palatable than some of his other movies. For example, I love antichrist but figure that may be too much to start with. Any suggestions appreciated.
I have watched nearly every movie he made and I dont feel anything hits me like him when I'm searching for melancolic movies. Any suggestions?
It recently left me emotionally destroyed for several minutes afterwards and I wondered if anyone else had a similar experience.
Lars von Trier is, together with Roy Andersson, Morten Tyldum and Ingmar Bergman, without a doubt one of Scandinavia's most talented directors and in my opinion one of Europe's top 10 living horror/drama directors. But von Triers fans seems to be divided to say the least. Some think that Antichrist is his best horror work, while some think it's The House That Jack Built. Personally I like Antichrist the most. With that being said I never want to see it again and in my opinion it's one of the most disgusting movies ever. It is a really good movie tho and the directing is almost perfect. Everything from the surroundings to the dialogue or the lack of it is in some cases is all perfect. The House That Jack Built is also extremely well-made, with some of the most realistic depictions of insanity, in my opinion.
That being said they are extremely different movies and are almost hard to compare to each other even tho it's the same director. Antichrist is dark and almost like a mystery, whiles The House That Jack Built is almost a very twisted comedy that slowly turns more and more serious and twisted. Both movies have one major similarity, and that is the phase of the movies. In Antichrist the movie is slow all the way up to the end when everything gets really hectic and a faster pace. In The House That Jack Built we see the same thing but on a smaller scale. Between Jack murdering people, the movie is very slow and calm, but when he talks about a murder, the pace intensifies and gets faster. So in Antichrist there is one big build up and in The House That Jack Built there are many smaller build-ups.
I prefer the one big build up, but I do think that many smaller build-ups works perfectly in The House That Jack Built, and the movie wouldn't be as good if it was built like Antichrist. A difference is that one movie (Antichrist) is about coping with trauma, (a subject that I find fascinating) and the other one (The House That Jack Built) is about causing trauma.
I don't think that Antichrist in Lars von Trier's best work, but these are the only horror/thrillers he has made so that debate is for another Subreddit. Which Lars von Trier horror movie do you prefer, or do you not like any of them?
I’ve heard polarizing opinions on his filmography. Are there a couple must-sees or are his films passable in terms of all that movies offer?
I know he is adored by cinephiles but what do his countrymen think of him.
Does anyone know where to watch this series online?
I must confess immediately that I love LVT. He's not the sort of director that you immediately warm up to, but once you sort of understand his craft and his way of telling stories, his movies truly become sensational. I'm not sure which movie where it all snapped into place, possibly Dancer in the Dark or Nymphomaniac, but it dawned on me, he's a film savant. So going into THTJB I knew I was in for a treat.
The movie was marketed as his most disturbing film yet. So disturbing that it would be played in theatres for only one day. Knowing who LVT is I knew making his most deranged film would not be an easy task, cause he was already the master of disturbing cinema but boy did he deliver.
Out of all the LVT films this one is the closest he's made to a horror movie and at the same time I consider it a comedy. My girlfriend and me found our selves laughing out loud a lot during the movie, especially the Pizzas scene. We have a long lost but warmly welcomed Matt Dillon playing our protagonist. LVT even gives him the trademark serial killer glasses.
The opening scene is a woman (Uma Thurman) testing his limits. Jack really does bend backwards to help her and is met with disrespect and just pure rudeness until he cant take it anymore. Not your normal serial killer movie opener. LVT wants us to maybe sympathize with the character who is pushed to his limits.
From there jack's life sort of becomes an uncontrollable impulse to kill. At first its small and meticulous and soon it becomes unstoppable and messy madness. Jack narrates the whole film trying to explain his side of the story. We soon find out that he's not talking to the audience but a character named Verge. Sound familiar?
Scenes that really stand out is his hunting outing which ends with a new character that might me the most shocking part of the whole movie Mr. Grumpy. Another scene where his playfulness with a GF slowly turns deadly as he tests every limit possible with her. All the way up until she finds a cop to save her but the cop ends up taking jacks side and releasing her back to him to only be tortured and murdered late on.
Later in the movie when jack is spinning out of control he sets up a one gunshot multiple murder in his freezer only to be stopped by one of the captures and told he has the wrong bullet. This spins jack out of control whose ego now is out of control. His ego is so bad at this point that he truly thinks god wants him to be committing the murders a
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I've seen some stuff by him (Antichrist, THTJB, Nynphomaniac I & II and Dogville) and just couldn't like most of it. The one i did like was Dogville for its straight-forward way of moving, but having substance and personality at the same time.
But the rest of them just seemed self-absorbed and cheap, for lack of a better word ; the "shock" factor wasn't that much impactful to me because all of them did fit in the movie, with exceptions, of couse. I like the cinematography and the crude way that he maneuvers the themes and characters, but what really got me was that he stops and explains the movie too much, and in most of them, just expects you to take his word as truth, instead of engaging you in the conversation the film is trying to convey.
So did i see the wrong movies or just saw them in the wrong way?
I've been a long time fan of von Trier, and recently when I brought him up my partner expressed that it was a name they were familiar with but never really seen any of his movies. I said I would love to watch some with them if they were interested. Thing is, I know von Trier movies can be, well, a lot.
I would love some suggestions from this community on where to start. I'm thinking dancer in the dark or dogville (the movie that sparked my interest in "film as art" when I was a teenager), or maybe meloncholia. They're all very depressing but I think much more palatable than some of his other movies. For example, I love antichrist but figure that may be too much to start with. Any suggestions appreciated.
