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Lars von Trier's new horror film, "The House That Jack Built," premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, prompting outrage and walkouts at the serial killer film's mutilation and violence.
In between those two particular poles of depravity, Lars von Trier‘s The House That Jack Built “treats” viewers to a litany of violent images: stranglings, shootings, stabbings, beatings ...
More than 100 people have walked out of Lars von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built,’ which depicts the mutilation of women and children,” Variety New York Bureau Chief Ramin Setoodeh ...
The Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has coped with depression, alcohol abuse and a fairly justifiable persecution complex for years now. In 2011 he shot his mouth off at the Cannes Film Festival, j… ...
It will take time before it's revealed, and at 155 minutes, The House That Jack Built unfurls at its own slow-burn pace. Curzon Artificial Eye Whether you have the stomach for it is another matter.
Of all the shocking things about Lars von Trier’s “The House That Jack Built,” the most shocking might have been this: At the film’s Tuesday-morning Cannes Film Festival press screening at ...
“The House That Jack Built” first impresses as a sitcom involving a large and uproarious ethnic household. Jack (E.J. Bonilla) moves his entire clan into a multi-family brownstone in the Bronx ...
Don’t get me wrong — The House That Jack Built is definitely something to see. But what’s most surprising is that it’s just as often inane as unsettling.
Every Lars von Trier movie feels like a dare, but nothing to date reaches the level of “The House That Jack Built,” a 155-minute portrait of a serial killer that dares to spend the duration of ...
The House That Jack Built premieres out-of-competition this week at Cannes Film Festival. Slash Film reported Monday that while there’s no official release date as of yet, IFC Films is set to ...