Manderlay (2005)

The Projectors

We’re near the end of a terrible year made worse by watching a dozen Lars von Trier movies over the span of 2024. We follow up last month’s discussion of “Dogville” with a genuine sequel. Part two of an unfinished trilogy that Lars calls “U.S.A: The Land of Opportunity”. Grace returns except she is now played by Bryce Dallas Howard and her gangster father is now played by Willem Dafoe. Minimal sets and the theme of enslavement continue as Grace comes upon a small town where slavery still exists 70 years after it was supposedly abolished. The mam of the minimal plantation is dying and wants her slave book burned. Grace has more altruistic ideas to punish the previous white residents and educate the newly freed slaves but maybe you’ve heard about what the road to hell is paved with. Things are going to be a lot harder than she bargained for which is an extreme understatement considering who wrote and directed this film. We’re talking “MANDERLAY” from 2005 and it also stars Danny Glover, Isaac de Bankolé, Lauren Bacall and more. It’s still narrated by John Hurt who most certainly never read a script like this. Hear us tell the strange ass tale. We have one last Lars film after this that will drop next week.

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