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Manderlay (2005) 7.3
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Metascore: 46/100
Reviews: 78 user | 138 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com A story of slavery, set in the 1930s American South. Director:Lars von TrierWriter:Lars von Trier |
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After gangster Mulligan's cars colony, fleeing northern justice, finds a hiding place in Alabama, spoiled, naive daughter Grace refuses to travel on after seeing the Manderlay cotton plantation being run under slavery rules, called Mam's law, inclusive flogging. She keeps half of dad's goons as guard to force the dying matriarch-owner's heirs, which she shamelessly dispossesses and reduces to 'staff', to taste destitution under absurd, gun-imposed contracts. The 'slaves' are made free partners, supposed to vote for progress after lessons from Grace. But almost all her democracy-pupils prove fickle, dumb and selfish, except old Willem. Her and their ignorance in Southern planting and crafty Dixie ways means more problems are created then solved. By the time dad returns to pick her up or abandon her for good, she's the one who has learned and changed the most. Written by KGF Vissers
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3 June 2005 (Denmark) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$14,200,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$15,117 (USA) (27 January 2006)Gross:
$74,205 (USA) (17 March 2006)Company Credits
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Narrator: It was in the year of 1933, when Grace and her father were heading southward with their army of gangsters.
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Written and Performed by David Bowie
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Published by Chrysalis Music Limited
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Nicole Kidman was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard, whose father, Ron Howard directed Kidman in Far and Away. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: It was in the year of 1933, when Grace and her father were heading southward with their army of gangsters.
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"Young Americans"Written and Performed by David Bowie
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I was expecting something very inferior to Dogville, which is, but i forgot that it did not need to be as good to be great. Again, one or another person (many of them not very bright) will say that it's only anti-American crap, but, again, it's more, way more than that: a brutal critic to the idealism which recognizes no national barriers and can be applied to any ideology, without any exception that i know; Communism/Socialism and Christianism specially comes to my mind; Grace could be seen as the socialist leader who brings the Marxism and releases the workers (the slaves) from oppression of the bourgeoisie (Mam and her family), or the priest with the word of God to the savages (again the slaves), and punishing the sinners (Mam and her family one more time). The weak point is that aesthetically is not close to be as interesting as his previous film, and i think that Trier knew it and so the style is not so important here. Bryce Dallas Howard delivers a great performance, and does not try to imitate Nicole Kidman, but create her own vision of the character, like they were 2 sides of the same person. In my opinion, this one is only edged by Dogville in Von Trier's career.