This article is about the 2003 film. For Dogville comedy films, see Dogville Comedies. For things named Dogtown, see Dogtown (disambiguation).
Dogville
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Lars von Trier
Written by
Lars von Trier
Produced by
Vibeke Windeløv
Starring
Nicole Kidman
Lauren Bacall
Jean-Marc Barr
Paul Bettany
James Caan
Patricia Clarkson
Jeremy Davies
Ben Gazzara
Philip Baker Hall
Chloë Sevigny
Stellan Skarsgård
Narrated by
John Hurt
Cinematography
Anthony Dod Mantle
Edited by
Molly Marlene Stensgård
Production companies
Filmek AB[1]
Zoma Films UK
Canal+
France 3 Cinéma
Distributed by
Nordisk Film (Scandinavia; under Nordisk-Constantin-Fox in Denmark)[2]
Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom)[3]
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Sweden)[4]
Les films du losange (France)[2]
Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)[2]
A-Film (Netherlands)[2]
Trust Film Sales ApS (International)[1]
Release dates
May 19, 2003 (2003-05-19) (Cannes)
March 26, 2004 (2004-03-26) (United States)
Running time
178 minutes[5]
Countries
Denmark
United Kingdom
Sweden
France
Germany[6]
Language
English
Budget
$10 million[7]
Box office
$16.7 million[7]
Dogville is a 2003 arthouse[8] experimental[9] avant-garde[10] film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like 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.
The film is the first in von Trier's incomplete USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy, which was followed by Manderlay (2005) and is projected to be completed with Washington. The film was in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[11] It was screened at various film festivals before receiving a limited release in the US on March 26, 2004.
Dogville opened to polarized reviews from critics. Some considered it to be pretentious or exasperating; it was viewed by others as a masterpiece,[12] and has widely grown in stature since its initial release. It was later included in the 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000 conducted by BBC. Since then, filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve have praised the film.[13]
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^"The 21st-century movie Denis Villeneuve calls "genius"". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
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