Dogville Confessions (2003)

This film depicts the intense drama that takes place during the making of Dogville. Lars von Trier and Nicole Kidman work through this creative process under very extreme conditions.

Director:

Sami Saif

Stars:

Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany

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Cast

Credited cast:
Harriet Andersson	...	Herself
Lauren Bacall	...	Herself
Paul Bettany	...	Himself
Blair Brown	...	Herself
Patricia Clarkson	...	Herself
Jeremy Davies	...	Himself
Anthony Dod Mantle	...	Himself
Siobhan Fallon	...	Herself
Ben Gazzara	...	Himself
Daniel Karpantschof	...	Himself
Nicole Kidman	...	Herself
Udo Kier	...	Himself
Cleo King	...	Herself
Anders Refn	...	Himself
Chloë Sevigny	...	Herself

Storyline

Documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's Dogville. Combines interviews with footage shot on location in winter-covered Sweden. From 'boxes of truth', like Catholic confessionals, the actors and the director talked, cried, laughed, sung and confessed directly to the camera during shooting. Also contains deleted scenes from the feature film.

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Plot Keywords:

lars von trier | confessional | making of

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Taglines:

Dogs & Deer - Dogville Confessions

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

Denmark

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 June 2003 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Dogs & Deer

Filming Locations:

Film i Väst, Nohab Industrial Estate, Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zentropa Real ApS, Almaz Film Productions S.A., Film i Väst

Technical Specs

Runtime:

52 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The documentary is featured on the 2nd disc of the Dogville DVD, released in November of 2003.

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Quotes

Nicole Kidman: Well... I'm here in... Sweden. And it's a little strange, everything's a little strange. I feel a little confused. But I was thinking earlier, I'm really glad that I came. Because it's kind of nice to be doing something... unpredictable.

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Connections

Featured in Trier, Kidman og Cannes (2003)

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Soundtracks

"Lunar Landings"
(end title music)
Composed by Jesper H. Sidelmann, Tina Nørgaard and Rasmus Kaae Munch

User Reviews

Intrigueing, disturbing...

If you've seen Dogville, and were intrigued by it, then you can't miss this documentary. If anything, I felt even more disturbed after watching Dogville Confessions than watching the movie itself.

Dogville Confessions isn't your ordinary "making of" documentary. Rather, it focuses less on the technicalities of filming and more on the interactions between the director, the script and the actors, during their gruelling period of filming in an old warehouse in the frozen part of Sweden.

A "confession box" is placed on the set, with a video camera. It's available 24 hours a day, and strangely, the actors do end up in the box relating their experiences from time to time.

We discover that director Lars Von Trier doesn't get along with actors so well. And it really comes out in Confessions when we get to see first-hand how ineffectively he interacts with the actors, in particular with Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany and Stellan Skarsgard.

We see tempers flare on set. There are tears, arguments, confusion. But this is no soap opera - it's a weird disjointedness that seems to affect everyone involved in the filming. It's like Dogville temporarily overtook these people's lives for the duration of filming.