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The Golden Heart trilogy (Danish: Guldhjerte-trilogien) is three films by the Danish screenwriter and director Lars von Trier. It consists of Breaking the Waves (1996), a melodrama about sex and religion; The Idiots (1998), a Dogme 95 film dealing with moral conventions; and Dancer in the Dark (2000), a musical starring the Icelandic ...
Von Trier achieved international success with his Golden Heart trilogy. Each film in the trilogy is about naive heroines who maintain their "golden hearts" despite the tragedies they experience. This trilogy consists of Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), and Dancer in the Dark (2000).
2 ^ The Elements of Crime, Epidemic and Europa are, respectively, the first, second and third part of the film trilogy Europa. 3 ^ Breaking the Waves , The Idiots and Dancer in the Dark are, respectively, the first, second and third part of the film trilogy Golden Heart .
YearTitleAlso Known As1969Secret Summer(Hemmelig sommer) [1]1982(Befrielsesbilleder) [1]1984(Forbrydelsens element) [1]1987YesRate. 63 Metascore. An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision. Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare. Votes: 116,506 | Gross: $4.18M. Lars von Trier The Golden Heart Trilogy.
- 9 The Kingdom
- 8 The House That Jack Built
- 7 Europa
- 6 Nymphomaniac
- 5 Dogville
- 4 Antichrist
- 3 Breaking The Waves
- 2 Dancer in The Dark
- 1 Melancholia
Von Trier’s miniseries trilogy The Kingdom (Danish title: Riget) is a medical horror epic that chronicles the bizarre and supernatural events at a Danish neurosurgical hospital. Premiered in 1994 and followed by the second season in 1997, this sepia-toned dark tale achieved cult status and inspired Stephen King’s television series Kingdom Hospital....
2018’s psychological slasher The House That Jack Built centers on Jack (Matt Dillon), a serial killer who views his murders as performance art. The titular antihero describes some of his worst crimes over a 12-year period. It is probably the director’s most sadistic film. Seeping with horrible moments, The House That Jack Built delivered the Cannes...
The final film in Von Trier’s Europa trilogy (following 1984's The Element of Crime and 1987's Epidemic) that thematically deals with the loss of idealism, this Franz Kafka-excited 1991 experimental drama follows a naive American (Jean-Marc Barr) arriving in Germany after World War II with dreams of being a peace-bearer. He soon finds himself caugh...
Split into two parts, 2013’s erotic art film Nymphomaniac conclude Von Trier’s Depression trilogy (preceded by 2009’s Antichrist and 2011’s Melancholia). The movie explores the sexual addictions of a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg as an adult and Stacy Martin as a teenager), recounting the story of her deviant life....
Staged as if it were a bare bones theatrical play, 2003’s avant-garde drama Dogville is the first installment of Von Trier’s unfinished USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy (the second is 2005’s Manderlay). In this disturbing analysis of society, Nicole Kidman steps into the role of Grace, a desperate young woman on the run from the mobsters who see...
Von Trier’s 2009 sinister horror poem opens with a gorgeous, slow-motion, black-and-white prologue, as She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and He (Willem Dafoe) are making love as their child climbs from his crib to look at snowflakes outside and tumbles out of an open window. A grieving unnamed couple retreat to a cabin in the woods to cope with the traged...
The first film in the director’s Golden Heart trilogy (succeeded by 1998’s The Idiots and 2000’s Dancer in the Dark), the 1996 drama Breaking the Waves is the extraordinary tale of how far someone would go for love. Philosophically complex, emotionally devastating, and incredibly powerful, the film follows Bess (Emily Watson), a naive wife of an oi...
Winner of the 2000 Palme d’Or, this heart-rending musical drama tells the story of Selma (played by Icelandic musician Björk), a factory worker who has to cope with losing her eyesight. Touchingly childlike in the same way as Breaking the Waves’ Bess, Dancer in the Dark's Selma wants to save her young son Gene, who may also lose vision. "The storyl...
Von Trier’s visually stunning apocalyptic drama stars Kirsten Dunst and the director's favorite, Charlotte Gainsbourg, as the deeply depressed Justine and her sister Claire with a mask of calm. They sit helpless in a teepee as a blue planet called Melancholia appears in the sky and is about to collide with Earth. Melancholiais Von Trier’s most pers...
14 apr 2014 · By David Sterritt. Essays — Apr 14, 2014. B reaking the Waves (1996) is a movie that broke the rules, exploding so many norms of mainstream cinema that its very existence—not to mention its vast popularity and critical acclaim—seems almost as astonishing as the miracle that gives the story its visionary ending.
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