Released on: 2002
Rating: 5.10
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Lars von Trier provokes Cannes with 'I'm a Nazi' comments
Director makes controversial jokes claiming to 'understand Hitler' at Cannes film festival press conference for his latest film, Melancholia
Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic, puckish and deliberately provocative. But even he over-leaped his high standards of eccentricity as he spoke before the Cannes premiere of Melancholia,
his latest film, announcing "I'm a Nazi" and that he "understands Hitler".
He also jokingly claimed he was writing a four-hour-long hardcore porn film featuring Melancholia stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst. It would, he said, contain "a lot of very, very unpleasant sex".
The nazism remarks, which were jestingly made in response to a question about his German roots, would probably spell career suicide if uttered outside the rarefied atmosphere of the Cannes film festival – and indeed may yet.
As Melancholia's star Dunst looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a restraining arm»
- Charlotte Higgins
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Cannes 2011 diary: Palme d'Or, Pedro and promo-pushers
The race for the big prize hots up. Could Almodуvar pip Malick to the post? And down in the Marchй, the hustlers are still at it
We're inside the Cannes Palais ahead of the morning screening, where talk has turned to Sunday and the announcement of this year's Palme d'Or winner. In actual fact the talk has been turning, fitfully, to Sunday since two Tuesdays ago, when this festival first kicked off, but by this point the delegates at least have some actual first-hand evidence to go on. Screen Daily's aggregate of reviews currently has Aki Kaurismдki's Le Havre ahead by a whisker although I still have hopes for The Tree of Life. In the view of Variety critic Leslie Felperin, Terrence Malick's far-reaching (over-reaching?) metaphysical odyssey is surely an all-or-nothing affair. To parcel it off with a conciliatory grand jury prize would almost be seen as an»
- Xan Brooks
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