Dogville movie

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away...

Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal set to tell the story of Grace (Kidman), a fugitive from mobsters, who arrives in the small town of Dogville and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.The film is the first in the USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy, followed by Manderlay (2005) and Wasington (2007).The film was in competition for the prestigious Palme dOr at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival but Gus van Sants Elephant won the award. Staging The story of Dogville is narrated by John Hurt in nine chapters and takes place on a stage with minimalist scenery. Some walls and furniture are placed on the stage, but the rest of the scenery exists merely as white painted outlines which have big labels on them; for example, the outlines of gooseberry bushes have the text "Gooseberry Bushes" written next to them.

While this form of staging is common in black box theaters, it has rarely been attempted on film before (the 1954 musical Western Red Garters being a notable exception). The bare staging serves to focus the audiences attention on the acting and storytelling, and also reminds them of the films artificiality. As such it is heavily influenced by the theatre of Bertolt Brecht. The film does however employ carefully designed lighting to suggest natural effects such as the moving shadows of clouds, and sound effects are used to create the presence of non-existent set pieces (i.e. there are no doors, but the doors can always be heard when an actor "opens" or "closes" one).The movie was shot on high-definition video using a Sony HDW-F900 camera in a studio in Trollhättan, Sweden.Tagline: A quiet little town not far from here.The story of Dogville is given in 9 chapters and a prologue, with a description of each chapter given as it takes place in the film. These descriptions are given below.

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Dogville Cast

• Ben Gazzara
• Blair Brown
• Harriet Andersson
• James Caan
• Jean-Marc Barr
• Jeremy Davies
• John Hurt
• Lauren Bacall
• Patricia Clarkson
• Paul Bettany
• Philip Baker Hall
• Siobhan Fallon
• Thom Hoffman
• Zeljko Ivanek