Five Obstructions
Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The Perfect Human. In the year 2000, von Trier challenged Jorgen Leth to remake his film five times, each time with a new obstruction to force Leth to rethink the story and characters of the original film. Lars von Trier sets a game in motion that is full of traps and vicious turns hoping each time Leth will fail but it turns out to have a surprising outcome.
Running Time
88 mins
Year
2004
Kanopy ID
1114027
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Comments (5)
LVT is among a handful of directors who work the medium of cinema beyond its narrative capabilities while, in this case, extracting a narrative from the experiment.
Very strange yet exciting journey that Lars takes us on here
Not my favorite from Lars and I think it starts to go downhill after the first couple of Obstructions, but there's some fun moments and some brilliant moments throughout.
i love it!
genius