Director: Lars von Trier
Screenplay: Lars von Trier, story by Jenle Hellund and Lars von Trier
Starring: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Grabol, Riley Keough, Jeremy Davies
Running Time: 150 minutes
Genre: Horror, thriller
Jack (Dillon) is an engineer, and aspiring architect who wants to build a house, he is also the brutal serial killer "Mr. Sophistication". Telling his story to a mysterious interviewer (Ganz), Jack relates five of his murders, or "incidents" as he calls them, that took place over a period of twelve years.
This is kind of a violent horror art-film. If you are familiar with the work of notorious danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, than you'll have an idea of what to expect with this. It mixes scenes of shocking brutality, with images of striking beauty, odd digressions, archive footage and animation. It's constructed in five chapters, and an epilogue. Von Trier always seems to be trying to shock, provoke and frustrate his audience, and this will certainly do that. I have seen many horror films, and even I found some of the violence hard to watch, which includes a graphic, but simulated, scene of animal torture, and documentary footage of historical atrocities. However, it is also fascinating, striking and often darkly funny. It is shocking, disturbing, offensive, funny, breathtaking, fascinating, dull and frustrating. It kind of frustrates expectations at every turn, and the ending is frankly bizarre. The performances are good, but this is really von Trier's show.
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