Bondage in cinema

His movies are filled with victims and victimizers. That film, which was often brilliant in etching the banality of evil, brought a damsel in distress to an insular s Colorado town. It says more about the way Von Trier treats his characters as chess pieces than about race or America. For Manderlay, Von Trier and his creative team employ the same minimalist means as in Dogville:

This is the archive of articles selected from the print version of Cinema Scope magazine. You can help us to continue to provide this valuable resource and read many more articles by subscribing. Beginning in media res as Cynthia and Evelyn act out their elaborate erotic routines with deadpan conviction, the film eventually shows them relaxing together, whispering sweet nothings, and behaving in a manner that would be palatable to even the most vanilla of viewers. It seems to me that you could make a parallel disclaimer: Is the creation of self-contained worlds an ongoing interest?

Lester Cohen from the novel by W. William Morgan Art Dir: But at least with people around, then you can be lonely with noise. A romantic waltz on the soundtrack; the happy urgency of a young pipe-smoker in a cab; the rush of lights and traffic.