It doesn't offer much insight into America's race issues, which might seem at first to be its target, but it works very well as a metaphor for America's intervention in Iraq.
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Manderlay (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 47
Rotten:47
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus: Manderlay may work better as a political statement than as a film, making its points at the expense of telling a compelling story.
Theatrical Release: Jan 27, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation. Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them.... [More]
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe
Director: Lars von Trier
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If this trilogy finishes up strong, this middle portion may come to be seen as the weakest, though it's still forceful and intimate in the von Trier manner.
09/27/07
[It] raises interesting questions about what can happen in a democracy when its people are deeply corrupt. ... But likely to be more disheartened than enlightened.
09/12/07
A slightly more ponderous - if less dramatically satisfying - example of a Von Trier puppet show.
07/03/07
Relying on a daring script as executed by A-list actors, offers a potentially transformational experience for any inclined to contemplate an introspective, gut-wrenching meditation on the intractability of the legacy of slavery.
05/20/07
Manderlay is shorter but just as dull, pretentious and condescending as Dogville.
03/01/07
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01/20/07
Manderlay loses in power what it lacks in novelty, even though it's more relevant than anything the year is likely to bring.
11/27/06
I was intrigued by the intensity and audaciousness of Dogville, but Manderlay feels stagey, earnest, long and pretentious. Its grainy, shaky hand-held camera-work only adds to the monotony.
11/24/06
The audience's familiarity with the stylistic devices of Manderlay should allow the film's more reflective screenplay to shine through.
09/28/06
... an anti-American rant that tediously plays out as a misplaced lecture by the pretentious filmmaker.
08/24/06
Watching this film is an edifying but frustrating experience; dull in parts, amusing and illuminating in others. You’d still struggle to call it entertainment.
06/24/06
Top Critic Picks at the painful sores of America's racial legacy while withholding the brotherhood-of-man epiphanies that made the Oscar-validated 'Crash' a healing experience for many moviegoers...
03/31/06
If von Trier can't be bothered to get out more, he should at least consider picking up a book or just using some real imagination.
03/24/06
Top Critic Manderlay is a misfire, but a misfire from von Trier is still more interesting than a blandly successful Hollywood product.
03/24/06
The unusual von Trier film whose formalism is worn lightly, whose performances impress without wearing on the nerves, and whose ethical standpoint is plain for all to observe
03/24/06
Von Trier takes minimalism to its most minimalist extreme. The format was intriguing in its originality in Dogville. I'm already tired of it.
03/17/06
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