Lars Von Trier: Interviews

Film Biographywith Six Entries At The Cannes Film Festival Thus Far, Lars Von Trier Has Been A Cannes Award Winner Four Times. Without Question, He Is The Most Intriguing Film Director To Emerge In Denmark Since The Days Of His Great Mentor In Spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer. A Relentless Visionary, Von Trier (B. 1956) Has Succeeded Not Only In Realizing His Projects But Also In Managing To Gather Substantial Audiences To His Films. (1996) Made Him A WellKnown Figure To American Audiences, As Did (2000), Winner Of The Palme DOr At Cannes.His Work On The GroundBreaking Tv Series (199497) Made Him A Household Name In Denmark. He Has Continued To Stir Controversy For His Polarizing Views On The Characters And Subject Matter Of His Films, As Well As For His Film Technique. Media Attention Reached Its Peak When Von Trier Created Dog Me 95, A Movement Dedicated To The Vow Of Chastity, Which Strips Cinema Of Its Artifice, Flash, And Polish.Rather Than Being Strident Or Shrill, However, These Collected Interviews Reveal The Danish Filmmaker To Be Impish, Forthright, Witty, Sometimes Infuriating, And Deeply Committed To The Possibilities Of Cinema. The Conversations In This Collection Trace His Development From The Structured, ImageObsessed Formalist Of (1984) And Europa (U.S. Title Zentropa, 1991) To The ControlShunning Game Master Of The 1990S.Most Of These Interviews, Two Previously Unpublished, Are Translated Into English For The First Time. They Begin In 1968, When Von Trier Was The Lead Actor In A ChildrenS Tv Series, And End In 2001. Von Trier Speaks Of His Visions, Ideals, Dislikes, And Technical Experimentation, Of His Conception Of Actors, His Childhood, His Phobias, And Of His Views On Religion And His IllFated Female Protagonists. His Style In Conversation Is Relaxed And Honest, His Mood Affirmative And Passionate.