Dogville quotes
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Quotes about Dogville
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Aesthetically sparse and thematically audacious, the searing work of a genuine provocateur
James Kendrick, at the Q Network Film Desk
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You want the curtains opened? You don't need them anymore.
Driver
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It's like von Trier's expression of bewilderment at the idea of Christ. Like Mel Gibson, he portrays intense evil to make us wonder at the generosity of Grace.
Jeffrey Overstreet, Looking Closer
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Perhaps there's something you don't need done?
Tom
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Nobody want's me to work for them. I would really like to offer something in return. You're all running a terrible risk having me here. I mean, I am willing to learn.
Grace
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A masterpiece.
Joe Utichi in FilmFocus
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Shocks, galvanizes, and exhilarates.
Jeanne Aufmuth, Palo Alto Weekly
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This brilliantly acted film is a highly stylized, surprisingly successful experiment that sits somewhere between theater and cinema.
Ken Fox TV Guide's Movie Guide
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I don't care how much fun you think it would be. I'm not gonna spank you, Jason.
Grace
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Slow-moving but engrossing, it feels shorter, and any reservations you may have about the unorthodox approach are washed away by its unexpected and purgative ending.
Eric Harrison in The Houston Chronicle
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Now that Vera had received proof that it was in fact Chuck who'd forced his attentions on Grace, she was meaner than ever. Had Grace had friends in Dogville they, too, fell like the leaves.
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Two people only hurt each other if they doubt the love they have for one another. You can read it some other time. You sit down some place and gaze out at the mountains. It's what the girl in my novel does.
Tom
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Of course it was all a load of nonsense. If anybody was capable of keeping track of ideals and reality, he was. After all, it was his job. Moral issues were his home ground. To think that he might doubt his own purity was really to think very little of him.
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Von Trier's contempt for humanity is becoming harder to hide with stylistic flourish. He doesn't even try here, and his arrogance is topped only by his misanthropy.
Sean Axmaker The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Let tomorrow bring what it's gonna bring. It's not a crime to doubt yourself, Tom, but it's wonderful that you don't.
Grace