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- Mentally ChallengedSocial MisfitsPrankHuman NaturePsychologicalSexual RelationsLifestyleMind and Soul more...
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- ComedyForeignFake DocumentaryDogmaExperimentalDrama
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- 90s
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The Idiots, 1998
Danish
Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Italy
Profile of The Idiots
The mood of The Idiots is clever, offbeat, and humorous. The plot centers around a mentally challenged character, pranks, and social misfits. It features satire. The Idiots is a comedy, foreign, and drama movie. Stylistically, it is dogmatic, is a fake documentary, and is experimental. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing of The Idiots is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a restaurant. It happens in the 1990s. The Idiots is known for being an award winner. Note that it includes sexual content.
Summary of The Idiots
Lars von Trier's first contribution to Denmark's Dogme 95 collective (subtitled "Dogme 2," following Thomas Vinterberg's THE CELEBRATION) concerns a group of adults who decide to get in touch with their "inner idiot." When Karen (Bodil Jorgensen), a shy, sensitive young woman, follows a group of mentally disabled individuals home after an encounter at a restaurant, she discovers that they are, in fact, healthy and intelligent. Led by Stoffer (Jens Albinus), the group lives communally in his wealthy uncle's house. Stoffer believes that by "spassing" in public they are rejecting the conformity and normality of modern society, and he spends his unemployed days thinking of different ways to toy with the world at large.
Shot with handheld digital cameras and using natural lighting and natural locations, THE IDIOTS possesses an urgency that makes it feel like a documentary. Von Trier sparked a heated controversy with his decision to film the sex scenes with actual intercourse, adhering to the Dogme tenets. (He hired porn actors for the close-ups.) This controversy aside, the film nonetheless raises questions about cultism, modern ethics, and the idea of individuality within the absurdity of the characters' world.
Details
| Language: | Danish |
| Country: | Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Italy |
| Release date: | 28 April 2000 |
| Runtime: | 117 min |
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The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Peter Stack
