Dogville

Aroview: This fierce parable of hypocrisy, exploitation and revenge set on a “soundstage” version of 1930s America is a brilliant conception of dir. Lars Von Trier, if a little tainted by his troubling cynicism.

In a role not too different from Bjork in DANCER IN THE DARK and Emily Watson in BREAKING THE WAVES, Nicole Kidman plays the martyred heroine, here as a fugitive heiress from a gangland dynasty who takes refuge in a small town known as ‘Dogville’.

Stylistically inspired by the RSC’s production of “Nicholas Nickleby”, the town is represented simply as a stage floor diagram adorned with a minimum of props, but disbelief is suspended in the best tradition of theatre with a refined script and an eclectic cast of prestige players (including a sublime narration by John Hurt).

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