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Me Me Lai

“I don’t like watching my own films on the cinema, certainly not the cannibal ones...I feel good about those now, though I didn’t at the time. Although they were horrific, people remember me because of these films and say how much they enjoyed them.”

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    THE ELEMENT OF CRIME

    LARS VON TRIER Denmark, 1984

    A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

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