by Eric Blume

If you’ve never seen Dogville, Lars von Trier’s 2003 masterpiece(?) that gives our Nicole three full hours’ worth of very tricky acting, watch it.  Or at least, try to watch it.  You may find it absolutely insufferable, and turn it off even before Nicole appears, twelve minutes in.  This is the definition of a movie not meant for everyone, and perhaps even a movie for almost nobody except a small sliver of people.  But I suppose am one of those people for whom the film was made, and I think it’s fantastic.  And it’s one of my all-time favorite performances by one of cinema’s greatest actresses...