91. DOGVILLE
Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Finland/UK
dir. Lars von Trier
world premiere 2003
U.S. release 2004
Because von Trier's splicing of Brechtian Verfremdung and Greenaway vengeance-by-numbers yields a more productive set of
prompts and constraints than Dogme ever gave him. And because you get three parables at once: of Grace, the ruthless victim;
of Tom, the evacuated philosopher; and of that plummy narrator, the giggling overseer and the mordant, jubilant scold.