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The New Cult Canon: Lars von Trier's The Kingdom
27 August 2008 9:01 PM, PDT
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(Note: The following entry only discusses the first four-and-a-half-hour section of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, a 1994 television miniseries that was released theatrically in America. The second of a proposed three sections was produced and released under the title The Kingdom II, but I've left it out, partly to keep things concise, and partly because the concluding third was never produced. Besides, for as many questions as The Kingdom leaves unanswered, it's pretty damned satisfying as a standalone movie.) Lars von Trier is known as many things—a provocateur, a misanthrope, a moralist, a scold, a gimmick-meister. And based on a body of work that includes Breaking The Waves, Dogville, Dancer In The Dark, Manderlay, The Idiots, and other controversial films, he's certainly earned all those labels many times over. But I've always seen him, first and foremost, as a prankster, the sort of kid who
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