The question was not even in the room, but in Lars von Trier bends over the recording device, thus his answer is to hear very clearly: “I am not a Nazi.”
For seven years, what he has said on a main afternoon at a press conference in Cannes, therefore, followed him. Then, too, he was not asked about his political Beliefs. Von Trier los spake it, not, probably wanted to talk about how he had discovered that he believed not how long, of Jewish descent.
What he said then really, that he understand a lot of things to Hitler and even a little with him, sympathize, cost him the Golden palm for his movie “Melancholia”, and possibly every bigger price, the a Festival could be. The worst thing that have cost him the rates, however, is his freedom.
all the way To Cannes in 2011 and took the world, and von Trier, baffled look at what they let him go: A cinema, the Christian moral notions so absurd, was able to advance to its painful limits. A cinema without any connection to political or social conflicts. A radical-free cinema.
Since Cannes in 2011, in the making of Trier, this movie. The obstacles were mainly externally. Cannes Persona Non Grata declared, had not his movies to their platform. In the meantime, the obstacles seem to be mainly on the inside, as if von Trier mentally and physically no longer able to make this movie.
Lost in its own convolutions
It should be as the shaking hands put off, asks his assistant before the Meeting in Cannes. This year the Festival, von Trier has left through the back door, by it Built his new Film “The House that Jack” out of competition. His condition was due to medication, says the assistant. Blame the alcohol, says von Trier, 2014, a serious alcohol and pill-addiction made public, later. Because of the festival stress that he had started drinking again.
Lars von Trier in Cannes, 2018
With his flowered shirt, the combed back hair and deep-set eyes that look awake and beamed away at the same time, are reminiscent of Beach Boys Mastermind Brian Wilson. A genius that has been lost over the years in the own brain, and even now, back on stage, only half in reality brought back appears. to speak
About his new Film, proves to be difficult. First of all, because of Trier unasked and talk awkward about the Nazi-scandal begins. He was reduced first, he seems now even more get rid of it.
“Disgusting. To Puke.”
The conversation runs but also tough, because of him, “The House that Jack Built”, apparently, in bad times reminds: “The filming was so uncomfortable, I had such anxiety.” Actually, the story of the aggressively nondescript serial killer Jack should be a mini-series. After his grotesque-comic masterpiece “ghosts”, it would become von Trier’s second series. But the financing fell through and the project was shortened to the length of the film.
The Film reminds us in his Episode of fortitude is still to a series. Over the course of twelve years, Jack (Matt Dillon) is shown with ever more Betvole elaborate murders. The first is from a no longer oppressed affect, the 64. takes Jack then with a precision that borders on passivity – although it is a Arrangement in which five people simultaneously shot in the head.
criticism of “The House that Jack Built” from Cannes Concorde serial killers and racists in Cannes: To hell with Lars von Trier!
“Disgusting. To Puke. A Film that should not have been made,” it said after the Premiere in Cannes. In view of the topic and of the Director, these reactions were expectable. As the Film is over long distances, by the way, also scenes, provocations reveal themselves immediately.
“I was in a very depressive Phase and needed something to Work,” says von Trier on the origin. “And our production company Zentropa also needed urgently for a Film.” In order to develop fast and without major effort something, he then made the figure of the serial killer – after his debut film “The Element of Crime” from 1984 for the second Time.
Who says first that it is enough for him?
“A serial killer from a dramaturgical point of view, very efficient: You can in the story actually do anything wrong,” says von Trier. “Because he [Jack] is a Psychopath, he can do all kinds of things, even quite silly things. Therefore, it is also fun to write the movie.” Instead of an exploration of Jack’s Psyche, the Film is also rather an exploration of von Trier’s state of mind. Any murder, especially of each to a woman, appears like a game to what the Director, his actors and his audience expect. Who says first that it is enough for him or her? That von Trier is a sick guy, have nothing more to say?
This acute preoccupation with the Image of “The House that Jack Built” with von Trier’s previous film, “Nymphomaniac 1+2”. Stellan Skarsgard played an alter Ego of von Trier’s, the out of Nothing as an anti-Zionist, but not anti-Semitic.
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this Film was its episodic-dialogue structure is far less immersive than the previous works. “In ‘Nymphomaniac’ and this Film, the aim was to use Material that I found interesting, regardless of whether it served the story or not,” says von Trier. A return to the concentrated perfidy, which made films like “Dogville” or “Antichrist” so repulsive-irresistible, appears in the future unlikely. Next, plans to of Trier, a large-scale project called “Études”, but whether it will come to that?
At the end of “The House that Jack Built”, this increases to a furious Finale, excerpts from von Trier’s earlier films. “The Problem was that we needed cut-outs from a couple of very good movies, we could not afford it, but,” explains von Trier, for the first Time, be mischievous by flashes of Humor. “As I said: What the Fuck! We have the rights to my films, so take that! let’s go!”
Then he becomes serious again. “I know, the quotes, The House that Jack works Built ” in a certain way as a Testament. I hope that he is.”
“The House that Jack Built” to be running on the 29. November in the German cinemas.
