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March 28, 2005
Shaggy Dogme
Another snarking of a decade of Dogme in the Australian: "Ten years on, Dogme 95 looks like a fringe experiment that went badly right. The first films were too successful. The name became a brand, which I guess is much worse than a genre. The romance of Dogme 95 effectively died when the rules were appropriated by mediocrities. The idea that anyone can make a film chimes happily with the advent of digital cameras, editing suites on laptops and a proliferation of festivals hungry to showcase documentary masterpieces such as Gay Nazi Germans. Unwittingly, Von Trier and Vinterberg paved the way for the most meritocratic epoch in cinema history. They also put their finger on a crime that has been sedating audiences and infuriating critics for years – the lack of emotional honesty between the camera and actor. For the first time in celluloid memory, actors are free to do their own thing and (portable) cameras are forced to follow."
Posted by at March 28, 2005 10:00 PM
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