Dogville

Dogville is a 2003 Danish avantgarde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Chlo Sevigny, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgrd, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara and James Caan. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stagelike set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan Kidman, a woman hiding from mobsters, who arrives in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor. Because she has to win and retain the acceptance of every single one of the inhabitants of the town to be allowed to stay, any attempt by her to have her own way or to put a limit on her service risks driving her back out into the arms of the criminals. Although she has no power in herself, her stay there ultimately changes the lives of the local people and the town in many ways.

The story of Dogville is told in nine chapters and a prologue, with a onesentence description of each chapter given in the film, in the vein of such chapter headings in many 19th century novels. These descriptions are given below.Dogville is a very small American town by an abandoned silver mine in the Rocky Mountains with a road leading up to it and nowhere else to go but the mountains. The film begins with a prologue in which we meet a dozen or so of the fifteen citizens. They are portrayed as lovable, good people with small flaws which are easy to forgive. ........

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