Cannes anti-american attitude...
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- ********0
this thread is ridiculous, why bring it up and why fight about it
JazX
(May 17 05, 07:14)I'm European. Apparently I can't help it.
- Cactus0
Call yourself whatever you like. Your origin dosen't interst me.
- ********0
the funny thing about cannes film festival is alot of america hates it, but you still see the hole town plastered up with giant hollywood movie posters from 300mil dollar crappy blockbuster films not even playing there in hope someone will notice it
i just dont get that..
- lnu0
What JazX said. It's just a couple of movies that happen to be set in USA.
- ********0
ehhh whatever. let the haters hate and the lovers love
- stem0
Good point - designerror
Wherever there's money to be made!
- Mimio0
Typical Von Trier film. He has nothing to carry his films other than obtuse masochism and hatred. Too bad all his subject matter is second and third hand, he should try visiting the country before attempting to criticize it.
- ********0
i find von trier films deeply tender and moving. insightful of the human condition.
- ********0
Too bad all his subject matter is second and third hand,
Mimio
(May 17 05, 07:27)
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what a ridiculous thing to say.
- Cactus0
unfittoprint
Lucas is just trying to drum up some interest in an otherwise tired film. Rather transparent and cynical I would have thought. I don't think he has a political bone in his body. American entertainment figures constantly roll into Paris to promote their latest project and say things on French television that that would never say at home. Whatever you think and America and its foreign policy, rank self-abasement is never a pretty sight.
- Mimio0
One of the common themes in his films is that a woman is being tortured basically.
- ********0
lol
basically, yeah. jeez Mmio, way to take all the substance out of his films!
clearly you don't understand the more complex aspects of his stories.
- Jaline0
*sits back in chair
*enjoys the fact that Canadians are usually ignored.
- unfittoprint0
4 fuck_sake
# Idioterne by Trier
# The Party by Thomas VinterbergDogma 95 is cinema's best [& probably the last] true manifest
in the last_
_well 10 years.
- Jaline0
I love Lars Von Trier, especially his film Dogville.
- Jaline0
or maybe i just love Nicole Kidman.
yup, that's it.
- ********0
Cactus has a point i believe.
I think Europeans tend to bring intellectual/academic questions into the cultural production, whereas Americans tend to bring emotional questions to the centre of the work. Both are about Life. I'm not implying Americans have no intellect nor that Europeans have no emotions. It's just the weight of tradition.
That difference has a bit to do with social and political structure and majorly to do with distribution circuits and targeting. that's what i think.
But we have better (smaller) cars ;)
- Mimio0
Kuz,
Who's to say I don't understand or even enjoy his filmmaking? I'm saying his choices of subject are designed to punish every one involved.
- pascii0
i'm wiping my ass daily with the national flag of: ____________
- ********0
i say you don't understand, if all you get out of them is obtuse masochism and hatred.
breaking the waves was a tender film of love and absolute devotion and all his films evoke human frailty. The Idiots was certainly not about watching a woman being tortured. They are difficult, yes, but that's like saying Schindlers List was just about watcing a load of people being starved and gassed.
But I have a feeling you're just trying to paint a broad brush over his work deliberately to discredit him, because you've been taken in by the lies and falsehood of the initial article that started this post.