Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 experimental drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.
Plot
Prologue: "Which introduces us to the town and its residents": Set in the isolated Rocky Mountain town of Dogville, near an abandoned silver mine, the film opens with a narrator introducing its 15 residents. Through the perspective of Tom Edison Jr. (Paul Bettany), an idealistic philosopher who organizes meetings on "moral rearmament," the townsfolk are depicted as quaint but flawed. Tom aspires to replace his physician father as the community's moral leader.
Awards
Cast
- Ben Gazzara
- Bill Raymond
- Blair Brown
- Chloë Sevigny
- Cleo King
- Gunnar Johansson
- Harriet Andersson
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- Ingvar Örner
- James Caan
- Jan Coster
- Jean-Marc Barr
- Jeremy Davies
- John Hurt
- Lauren Bacall
- Nicole Kidman
- Patricia Clarkson
- Paul Bettany
- Philip Baker Hall
- Shauna Shim
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Thom Hoffman
- Udo Kier
- Željko Ivanek