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All 8 Yorgos Lanthimos Movies, Ranked by How Uncomfortable They Are

Collider 23 Apr 2025
He is a provocateur, and he aims to shock in comparable ways to the likes of Lars von Trier ...
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Gilmore Girls’ Creator’s Ballet Epic Étoile Is Comfort TV for a World on Fire

Time Magazine 23 Apr 2025
“And when art dies, so does humanity. This world is a hellhole ... (She isn’t his only critic ... for starring in some of Lars von Trier’s most harrowing films, Gainsbourg may not have been the obvious choice to play a nervous chatterbox ... .
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‘Morally questionable’: inside the epic Lars von Trier exhibition in Copenhagen

The Guardian 21 Apr 2025
As I try to find the entrance to Nikolaj Kunsthal, a gothic-style former church in Copenhagen, I hear the lamenting strings of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde – the soundtrack to Lars von Trier’s 2011 end-of-the-world film Melancholia.
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Extreme Sex, Faith, and the Slithering Voice of God: Breaking the Waves at Houston Grand Opera

Houston Press 20 Apr 2025
Is Missy Mazzoli (music) and Royce Vavrek’s adaptation of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier’s 1996 cult classic Breaking the Waves the first opera to depict a toilet onstage? If not – and suddenly I’m ...
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‘I Like to Laugh!’: Charlotte Gainsbourg Talks Showing Off Her Comedy Chops—and Swearing with Abandon—on Étoile

Vogue 17 Apr 2025
People here see me only as a dramatic actress, but I was always looking for comedies as much as I could,” explains Gainsbourg, who is best known stateside for her work in provocative Lars von Trier films like Melancholia and Nymphomaniac ... .
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Best Bets: Pedal Punk, Meta4, and the Texas Latino/a/x Contemporary Dance Festival

Houston Press 17 Apr 2025
Houston Grand Opera will open the regional premiere of Breaking the Waves, a three-act opera based on Lars von Trier’s film of the same name, about a deeply religious woman named Bess who attempts to ...
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Breaking the Waves: A Wife's Vows to Obey Her Husband in a Dark, Compelling Tale ...

Houston Press 15 Apr 2025
Set in Scotland in the 1970s, the three-act opera, based on the film of the same title by Lars von Trier, tells the story of Bess, a devout member of a Calvinist congregation known for its conservative and patriarchal views ... That's my read on her ... ....
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