Dogville

Slate's Ben Williams on Dogville:

Lars von Trier's antirealist fable, which stars Nicole Kidman as a woman brutalized by a Rocky Mountain community ... Premiere ... "a masterpiece" and says von Trier does "more with one shift of lighting than many directors can do with" a "whole arsenal of effects." J. Hoberman ... almost a contribution to American literature." ... David Denby [says] the film is "an attack on America" ... He "employs the spectacle of female suffering as the basis for what has become a depressingly cruel and merciless worldview," says Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times.

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