Forever Lars.


I'm a big fan of Lars Von Trier's cinema, so I went to see his new movie (no it's not Dogville) Five obstructions last monday. It's an interesting piece of work, based on the idea of shooting different versions of one of Von Trier's favourite movies, The perfect human, a short film by danish film maker Jorgen Leth, each time with a different obstruction or limitation, contrainte that Von Trier imposes to Leth. The results are very different, but interesting (the animation obstruction is surprising for example, as both Von Trier and Leth hate animation). It's a film about contextes, and variations on contextes, and that's why I really enjoyed it (and it's quite clever and funny too). I knew Jorgen Leth work before, as I saw one of his film, Det gode og det onde (the good and the bad) 3 years ago at the La Rochelle international film festival, selected in a panorama of european cinema by...Lars Von Trier.

If you have never seen any of Von Trier films you should check Europa or Breaking the waves, or check his amazing TV series, The Kingdom. His movie with Bjork was OK, but it's not one of my favourite. His recent Dogville is absolut genius, go buy the DVD now !