JULIEN DONKEY - BOY
Dogme And Heresy By Ciprea Cannavò
The manifesto "Dogme 95" signed by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in Copenhagen on Monday March 13 1995, seemed like a joke [Vow Of Chastity, etc.] However, it finally exploded onto the scene at Cannes 1998, with the premieres of Vinterberg's Festen and Lars Von Trier's Idiots. Two years later the Dogme is still making headlines with Harmony Korine's julien donkey - boy. During work on the film, Korine received a call from Lars Von Trier. Harmony accepts not only the aesthetic relationship with the two Danish directors, but also the concept of stripping down film: No script, no soundtrack and optical elaboration, but hand - held cameras. Korine was supported by the director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle and the editor Valdis Oskardottir, who had both already worked on two "dogmatic" films: Festen and Søren Kragh - Jacobsen's Mifune’s Last Song [receiving a Silver Bear at Berlin in 1999]. Other Dogme films in the pipeline are: Jean - Marc Barr's Lovers and Too Much Flesh by the same director who is, however, beginning to reject some Dogme rules, such as the use of natural lighting, sound and music. Lars Von Trier wants to pull out all the copies of Idiots because the producers have added colour arbitrarily. Is an anti - Dogme heretical movement to be born? Time will tell.
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