The House That Jack Built review – is the controversial Cannes movie actually any good?

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The House That Jack Built review – is the controversial Cannes movie actually any good?

BY JAMES MOTTRAM IN CANNES

 

Image: CURZON ARTIFICIAL EYE

 

Lars von Trier is back in Cannes after a seven-year ban has been lifted and he's brought a controversy-packed movie.

 

At the premiere there were walk-outs, which is hardly surprising.

 

The Danish director's latest tackles the life of a serial killer; it was never going to be pretty.

 

When the film starts, to a black screen, two voices are talking: Jack (Matt Dillon), an engineer and failed architect, and a mystery man that we later learn is called Verge (Bruno Ganz). 

 

Full Story: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/review/a857187/the-house-that-jack-built-review-lars-von-trier/

[canuckamuck]

More and more, the mention of Cannes in connection with a film is an indication that I won't probably like it.

[observer90210]

Yeah !!...they day they give the golden palm to either Star Wars or a Hunger Games sequel, then perhaps we may be talking business here !!

[watcharacters]

12 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

More and more, the mention of Cannes in connection with a film is an indication that I won't probably like it.

 

 

Why do you say that?

 

 

[canuckamuck]

It used to mean edgy, but now it is usually just agenda proselytizing or just seeing how disturbing things can get.

[Enoon]

 

7 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

It used to mean edgy, but now it is usually just agenda proselytizing or just seeing how disturbing things can get.

 

How many of the films that were shown (in any given year) at Cannes have you actually seen?

 

How many did you "review" from last year when , I'm pretty sure, there were as many on the list of presentations as this year.

 

Or is the media focus, on the one or two films it deems shocking enough to be "newsworthy", the source of your balanced judgement?.

 

I guess "Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir: Ron Howard)" or "10 Years Thailand (dir: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul) from this years list don't stand much of a chance of your viewing......now that you've read the "headlines".

 

Cannes 2018

Everybody Knows (dir: Asghar Farhadi)
At War (dir: Stéphane Brizé)
The Wild Pear Tree (dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Ayka (dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Dogman (dir: Matteo Garrone)
Le Livre d’Image (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
Knife + Heart (dir: Yann Gonzalez)
Asako I & II (dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Sorry Angel (dir: Christophe Honoré)
Girls of the Sun (dir: Eva Husson)
Ash Is Purest White (dir: Jia Zhang-Ke)
Shoplifters (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Capernaum (dir: Nadine Labaki)
Burning (dir: Lee Chang-Dong)
BlacKkKlansman (dir: Spike Lee)
Under the Silver Lake (dir: David Robert Mitchell)
Three Faces (dir: Jafar Panahi)
Cold War (dir: Pawel Pawlikowski)
Lazzaro Felice (dir: Alice Rohrwacher)
Yomeddine (dir: AB Shawky)
Leto (L’Été) (dir: Kirill Serebrennikov)

Donbass (dir: Sergei Loznitsa) – opening film

Angel Face (dir: Vanessa Filho)
Border (dir: Ali Abbasi)
The Dead and the Others (dir: João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora)
El Angel (dir: Luis Ortega)
Euphoria (dir: Valeria Golino)
Friend (dir: Wanuri Kahiu)
The Gentle Indifference of the World (dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
Girl (dir: Lukas Dhont)
The Harvesters (dir: Etienne Kallos)
In My Room (dir: Ulrich Köhler)
Little Tickles (dirs: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
Muere, Monstruo, Muere (dir: Alejandro Fadel)
My Favorite Fabric (dir: Gaya Jiji)
On Your Knees, Guys (Sextape) (dir: Antoine Desrosières)
Sofia (dir: Meyem Benm’Barek)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir: Ron Howard)

The House That Jack Built (dir: Lars von Trier)
Le Grand Bain (dir: Gilles Lellouche)
Little Tickles (dir: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (dir: Bi Gan)

Midnight screenings
Arctic (dir: Joe Penna)
Fahrenheit 451 (dir: Ramin Bahrani)
The Spy Gone North (dir: Yoon Jong-Bing)
Whitney (dir: Kevin Macdonald)

10 Years Thailand (dir: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The State Against Mandela and the Others (dir: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
O Grande Circo Mistico (dir: Carlo Diegues)
Dead Souls (dir: Wang Bing)
To the Four Winds (dir: Michel Toesca)
La Traversée (dir: Romain Goupil)
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (dir: Wim Wenders)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir: Terry Gilliam)

Pajaros de Verano (Birds of Passage) (dirs: Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego)

Amin (dir: Philippe Faucon)
Carmen y Lola (dir: Arantxa Echevarria)
Climax (dir: Gaspar Noe)
Comprama un Revolver (Buy Me a Gun) (dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon)
Les Confins du Monde (dir: Guillaume Nicloux)
El Motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief) (dir: Augustin Toscano)
En Liberte! (dir: Pierre Salvadori)
Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire) (dir: Marie Monge)
Leave No Trace (dir: Debra Granik)
Los Silencios (dir: Beatriz Seigner)
The Pluto Moment (dir: Ming Zhang)
Mandy (dir: Panos Cosmatos)
Mirai (dir: Mamoru Hosoda)
Le Monde Est a Toi (dir: Romain Gavras)
Petra (dir: Jaime Rosales)
Samouni Road (dir: Stefano Savona)
Teret (The Load) (dir: Ognjen Glavonic)
Weldi (Dear Son) (dir: Mohamed Ben Attia)
Troppa Grazia (dir: Gianni Zanasi)

Chris The Swiss (dir: Anja Kofmel)

Diamantino (dirs: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
One Day (dir: Zsófia Szilágyi)
Fugue (dir: Agnieszka Smoczynska)
Woman At War (dir: Benedikt Erlingsson)
Sauvage (dir: Camille Vidal-Naquet)
Sir (dir: Rohena Gera)

Wildlife (dir: Paul Dano)
Our Struggles (dir: Guillaume Senez)
Shéhérazade (dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin)
Guy (dir: Alex Lutz)

 

[canuckamuck]

2 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

 

How many of the films that were shown (in any given year) at Cannes have you actually seen?

 

How many did you "review" from last year when , I'm pretty sure, there were as many on the list of presentations as this year.

 

Or is the media focus, on the one or two films it deems shocking enough to be "newsworthy", the source of your balanced judgement?.

 

I guess "Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir: Ron Howard)" or "10 Years Thailand (dir: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul) from this years list don't stand much of a chance of your viewing......now that you've read the "headlines".

 

Cannes 2018

Everybody Knows (dir: Asghar Farhadi)
At War (dir: Stéphane Brizé)
The Wild Pear Tree (dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Ayka (dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Dogman (dir: Matteo Garrone)
Le Livre d’Image (dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
Knife + Heart (dir: Yann Gonzalez)
Asako I & II (dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Sorry Angel (dir: Christophe Honoré)
Girls of the Sun (dir: Eva Husson)
Ash Is Purest White (dir: Jia Zhang-Ke)
Shoplifters (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Capernaum (dir: Nadine Labaki)
Burning (dir: Lee Chang-Dong)
BlacKkKlansman (dir: Spike Lee)
Under the Silver Lake (dir: David Robert Mitchell)
Three Faces (dir: Jafar Panahi)
Cold War (dir: Pawel Pawlikowski)
Lazzaro Felice (dir: Alice Rohrwacher)
Yomeddine (dir: AB Shawky)
Leto (L’Été) (dir: Kirill Serebrennikov)

Donbass (dir: Sergei Loznitsa) – opening film

Angel Face (dir: Vanessa Filho)
Border (dir: Ali Abbasi)
The Dead and the Others (dir: João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora)
El Angel (dir: Luis Ortega)
Euphoria (dir: Valeria Golino)
Friend (dir: Wanuri Kahiu)
The Gentle Indifference of the World (dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
Girl (dir: Lukas Dhont)
The Harvesters (dir: Etienne Kallos)
In My Room (dir: Ulrich Köhler)
Little Tickles (dirs: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
Muere, Monstruo, Muere (dir: Alejandro Fadel)
My Favorite Fabric (dir: Gaya Jiji)
On Your Knees, Guys (Sextape) (dir: Antoine Desrosières)
Sofia (dir: Meyem Benm’Barek)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir: Ron Howard)

The House That Jack Built (dir: Lars von Trier)
Le Grand Bain (dir: Gilles Lellouche)
Little Tickles (dir: Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (dir: Bi Gan)

Midnight screenings
Arctic (dir: Joe Penna)
Fahrenheit 451 (dir: Ramin Bahrani)
The Spy Gone North (dir: Yoon Jong-Bing)
Whitney (dir: Kevin Macdonald)

10 Years Thailand (dir: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The State Against Mandela and the Others (dir: Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
O Grande Circo Mistico (dir: Carlo Diegues)
Dead Souls (dir: Wang Bing)
To the Four Winds (dir: Michel Toesca)
La Traversée (dir: Romain Goupil)
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (dir: Wim Wenders)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir: Terry Gilliam)

Pajaros de Verano (Birds of Passage) (dirs: Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego)

Amin (dir: Philippe Faucon)
Carmen y Lola (dir: Arantxa Echevarria)
Climax (dir: Gaspar Noe)
Comprama un Revolver (Buy Me a Gun) (dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon)
Les Confins du Monde (dir: Guillaume Nicloux)
El Motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief) (dir: Augustin Toscano)
En Liberte! (dir: Pierre Salvadori)
Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire) (dir: Marie Monge)
Leave No Trace (dir: Debra Granik)
Los Silencios (dir: Beatriz Seigner)
The Pluto Moment (dir: Ming Zhang)
Mandy (dir: Panos Cosmatos)
Mirai (dir: Mamoru Hosoda)
Le Monde Est a Toi (dir: Romain Gavras)
Petra (dir: Jaime Rosales)
Samouni Road (dir: Stefano Savona)
Teret (The Load) (dir: Ognjen Glavonic)
Weldi (Dear Son) (dir: Mohamed Ben Attia)
Troppa Grazia (dir: Gianni Zanasi)

Chris The Swiss (dir: Anja Kofmel)

Diamantino (dirs: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
One Day (dir: Zsófia Szilágyi)
Fugue (dir: Agnieszka Smoczynska)
Woman At War (dir: Benedikt Erlingsson)
Sauvage (dir: Camille Vidal-Naquet)
Sir (dir: Rohena Gera)

Wildlife (dir: Paul Dano)
Our Struggles (dir: Guillaume Senez)
Shéhérazade (dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin)
Guy (dir: Alex Lutz)

 

 

Yes it is the media focus on the shocking ones which has formed my opinion.

So blame the media, if there are actually good movies being presented at Cannes. I wouldn't know about it.