“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” CARL SAGAN “Há inocentes que não escapam que lhes caia um raio na cabeça”, diz a Cleópatra de William Shakespeare. Em Melancholia, Lars Von Trier levou mais longe este preceito trágico: pegando carona num enredo de ficção científica, sugeriu que há...

Publicado em: 13/05/22

“Lars Von Trier – genius or fraud?” – asks a May 2009 Guardian Arts Diary poll. Its subject is arguably world cinema’s most confrontational and polarizing figure, and the results: 60.3% genius, 39,7% fraud. Trier takes risks no other filmmaker would conceive of (…) and willfully devastates audiences. Scandinavia’s...

Publicado em: 21/04/14