Amuse us with a line of dialogue or a caption for this first image of Uma Thurman with Matt Dillon in serial killer film The House That Jack Built. A new poster and Cannes news after the jump...
Sadly Uma is only third billed so given her level of fame we expect she's not in much of the movie. Perhaps a victim? Or the killer's wife? We have high hopes nonetheless, at least for her portion of the film. Though we love Uma deeply she can be uneven as an actor. Her short role in Von Trier's Nymphomaniac proved to be one of her best performances so crossing our fingers that magic strikes twice.
Serial killer shenanigans feel like such a basic choice for Denmark's eternal provocateur Lars von Trier who usually chooses far less traditional subgenres or plot drivers to upset audiences. Say what you will about the man or his films but nobody else would have dreamt up Melancholia, Antichrist, The Idiots, Breaking the Waves ...or basically any of 'em.
Speaking of "say what?"
It was recently announced that The House That Jack Built will be playing out of competition at Cannes. The festival has a long and complicated history with the mad Dane. Cannes is making that relationship even more complex by labelling the always controversial director "a victim" of that whole bad-taste Melancholia press conference which got him banned from Cannes for awhile. This seems like a really strange thing to say about a director who actively courts reprobation! As my friend Nigel said on twitter the other day
Look, I'm a huge Lars von Trier fan. But the director of the #Cannes Film Festival calling him a "victim" in ANY context is a horrible PR move. Mon dieu!
Pretty much.