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July 27, 2005
Take a little Dogme pill, Trier smirks
Time Out's Dave Calhoun does the Dogme dance with Lars von Trier: "Trier suggests that it is only a matter of historical accident that Americans speak English, not German. 'That would have been different. I could make a film – a science-fiction – about how it could have been, in which they all speak German. That would be kind of fun, no? With lederhosen…' Of the near lack of reaction to his Manderlay at Cannes, Trier says, "First of all, for most of Europe, I think, the film is politically correct. In a way that it is not, I'm sure, in America, as the film allows black people to be stupid and to behave like normal people." ... Recently, von Trier reached a crisis point. For half a year he tried to write 'Wasington', his planned third film in the American trilogy, but he wasn't happy with the outcome. [He's] decided to postpone that and make a Dogme film next year, his first since 'The Idiots'. 'It's what I've said to all these directors who come to me, saying 'I'm confused, what can I do?' I say, 'Take a little Dogme pill. Relax and nobody will expect anything from you. 'It works, this Dogme pill. So I'm taking a Dogme pill.'
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