Topic: Disgust, walkouts hit Lars von Trier's gruesome murder epic 'The House That Jack (Read 83 times)
May 20, 2018, 09:14:55 AM
Lars von Trier on Cannes walkouts: 'I’m not sure they hated my film enough'
Director addresses storm over The House That Jack Built and his Cannes return, saying if he ever kills anyone it will be a journalist
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/17/lars-von-trier-cannes-walkouts-the-house-that-jack-built
May 15, 2018, 12:04:21 PM
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Lars von Trier has never shied away from controversy, and his new film certainly delivered it: The House That Jack Built earned the highest level of ire and disgust seen at Cannes Film Festival this year.
In the gruesome film, which the Danish director has called his most violent film to date, Matt Dillon stars as Jack, a serial killer with more than 60 deaths to his name. Dillon's murderer relishes bloodshed and plots increasingly horrifying ways to inflict death. And while his character espouses equal interest in killing men and women, it's von Trier's female characters who are slaughtered with the most gusto.
"Will you sleep tonight?" the woman next to this reporter asked as credits rolled.
Neither Uma Thurman, who is murdered first in the flick, nor Riley Keough, whose stomach-churning death prompted more than a dozen walkouts from this reporter's vantage point, came to Cannes to promote the film or walk the red carpet. And unlike many other films here, von Trier won't be holding a news conference for his film.
In the gruesome film, which the Danish director has called his most violent film to date, Matt Dillon stars as Jack, a serial killer with more than 60 deaths to his name. Dillon's murderer relishes bloodshed and plots increasingly horrifying ways to inflict death. And while his character espouses equal interest in killing men and women, it's von Trier's female characters who are slaughtered with the most gusto.
"Will you sleep tonight?" the woman next to this reporter asked as credits rolled.
Neither Uma Thurman, who is murdered first in the flick, nor Riley Keough, whose stomach-churning death prompted more than a dozen walkouts from this reporter's vantage point, came to Cannes to promote the film or walk the red carpet. And unlike many other films here, von Trier won't be holding a news conference for his film.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2018/05/14/cannes-disgust-walkouts-lars-von-trier-murder-epic-jack-built/609972002/
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