Storyline
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.
Directors
Cast
Zeljko Ivanek, Philip Baker Hall, Paul Bettany, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Nicole Kidman, Cleo King, Jeremy Davies, Patricia Clarkson, John Hurt, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, James Caan, Shauna Shim, Chloë Sevigny, Bill Raymond, Ben Gazzara, Blair Brown, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, John Randolph Jones, Harriet Andersson, Thom Hoffman, Miles Purinton, Evelina Brinkemo, Anna Brobeck, Tilde Lindgren, Evelina Lundqvist, Helga Olofsson, Jan Coster, Ingvar Örner, Erich Silva
Trailer
Reviews
100
Argue that von Trier's latest is theatre and not cinema. But at least acknowledge that Dogville, in a didactic and politicised stage tradition, is a great play that shows a deep understanding of human beings as they really are.
100
Premiere
It really is a masterpiece--von Trier's first, as it happens.
100
Village Voice
For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie--a masterpiece, in fact.
88
Kidman gives the most emotionally bruising performance of her career in Dogville, a movie that never met a cliche it didn't stomp on.
80
The A.V. Club
The incendiary Dogville confirms the director's sadistic knack for locating his characters' (and his audience's) soft spots and prodding them for a singular emotional experience.
