Dogville

Theatrical Release Date: 2004 03 26 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 031398162346

Studio: Lions Gate

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Not For Children, Profanity]

Summary: Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) takes her in and strikes a deal with her: She'll work for the townsfolk in exchange for a safe place to hide; after two weeks the people will vote for her to either stay or go. Grace agrees to the terms and ends up meeting the locals, including the town doctor (Philip Baker Hall), shopkeeper (Lauren Bacall), and apple farmer (Stellan Skarsg?rd). Eventually, Grace's standing in the town takes a downward shift as the search for her intensifies. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: In Competition – Cannes Film Festival Film Presented – Telluride Film Festival Film Presented – Sundance Film Festival Film Presented – SXSW

Features: Commentary by director Lars von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle
Closed captioning
5.1 Dolby Digital

Dogville

Format: DVD

Release Date: 08/24/2004

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 177 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Prologue [8:51]
2. Tom Hears Gunshots and Meets Grace [9:41]
3. Tom Introduces Grace [9:36]
4. Grace Tries to Help the Township [6:55]
5. Grace's First Day of Hard Work [10:14]
6. Grace Interferes With the Townspeople's Secrets [5:24]
7. The Townspeople are Deciding Grace's Future [6:31]
8. Grace Spreads Joy in Dogville [3:31]
9. Law Enforcement Comes to Dogville [3:05]
10. The Day of Celebration [8:35]
11. Grace Becomes More Costly for the Townspeople [15:42]
12. Dogville's True Face [3:32]
13. Rape [5:14]
14. Everybody Turns Against Grace [11:27]
15. Grace Escapes From Dogville [14:23]
16. Exploitation [9:14]
17. Tom Wants to Make Love to Grace [17:54]
18. The Gangsters Come to Dogville [9:32]
19. The Final Illustration [12:43]
20. Credits [5:17]

Elbert Ventura

Master provocateur Lars von Trier divided audiences with this formally daring film about a woman on the run who finds a worse fate at the hands of her rescuers. Set in Depression-era America, Dogville was filmed on an empty soundstage ? la Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, a mounting that literalizes the movie's metaphoric baring of the American soul. Like Emily Watson's Bess in Breaking the Waves and Bj?rk's Selma in Dancer in the Dark, Nicole Kidman's Grace is the latest in a long line of von Trier's sacrificial innocents. Her march to martyrdom comprises the heart of this parable, which comments on the essential hypocrisy and meanness of America. By the climax, however, the movie enlarges its metaphor to suggest a more sweeping critique of human nature. The apocalypse that ends Dogville, signaled by Grace's reunion with her mobster father, carries faint echoes of divine retribution. Ending with a montage of photographs from the Great Depression, von Trier seems to tip his hand toward a more limited reading of his movie, which was denounced by some critics as an anti-American screed. Its political and philosophical subtext aside, Dogville is clearly the act of a filmmaker working with consummate confidence. The writing and the performances can be wooden, but the 177-minute epic remains compulsively, disturbingly watchable. Held together by John Hurt's brilliant narration -- perhaps the finest voice-over in movies since Barry Lyndon -- Dogville is a testament to von Trier's prodigious storytelling skills. ~ Elbert Ventura, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Trinity Stiles  Actor 
Evelina Brinkemo  Actor 
Barry Grant  Actor 
Lee R. King  Actor 
Alexandra Mehrstam  Actor 
Jan Coster  Actor 
Lásl Hágó  Actor 
Sara Klingvall  Actor 
Helga Olofsson  Actor 
Cynthia Almeida  Actor 
Elisabeth Falk  Actor 
Mikael Johansson  Actor 
Tilde Lindgren  Actor 
Eric Voge  Actor 
Max Angervall  Actor 
Atle Fägersten  Actor 
Hans Karlsson  Actor 
Åke Ljung  Actor 
Fafnnette Zetterström  Actor 
Ulf Anderson  Actor 
Mattias Fredriksson  Actor 
Sonny Johnson  Actor 
Cecilia Lindquist  Actor 
Ove Wolf  Actor 
Jimmy Uller  Actor 
Anna Brobeck  Actor 
Niklas Henriksson  Actor 
Kirkbakk. Oskar  Actor 
Sune Myrfalk  Actor 
Erich Silva  Actor 
Robert Arlinder  Actor 
Andreas Galle  Actor 
Susan Ketola  Actor 
Evelina Lundqvist  Actor 
Ingvar Örner  Actor 
Eva Ermenz  Actor 
Gunnar Johansson  Actor 
Patricia Page Leandersson  Actor 
Kent Vikmo  Actor 
Lars von Trier  Director 
Lars von Trier  Screenwriter 
Peter Aalbæk Jensen  Executive Producer 
Lars Jönsson  Executive Producer 
Vibeke Windeløv  Producer 
Marianne Slot  Executive Producer 
Lene Børglum  Executive Producer 
Peter Garde  Executive Producer 
Linda Daae  Screenwriter 
The English  Composer (Music Score) 
Nicole Kidman  Actor 
John Hurt  Actor 
Paul Bettany  Actor 
Philip Baker Hall  Actor 
James Caan  Actor 
Stellan Skarsgård  Actor 
Jeremy Davies  Actor 
Chloë Sevigny  Actor 
Patricia Clarkson  Actor 
Ben Gazzara  Actor 
Blair Brown  Actor 
Lauren Bacall  Actor 
Zeljko Ivanek  Actor 
Harriet Andersson  Actor 
Udo Kier  Actor 
Cleo King  Actor 
Miles Purinton  Actor 
Bill Raymond  Actor 
Siobhan Fallon-Hogan  Actor 
Shauna Shim  Actor 
Jean-Marc Barr  Actor 

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