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01/20/07
Manderlay (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 47 Rotten:47 Average Rating: 5.6/10
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Manderlay may work better as a political statement than as a film, making its points at the expense of telling a compelling story.
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Synopsis: This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation. Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michael Abiteboul
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The audience's familiarity with the stylistic devices of Manderlay should allow the film's more reflective screenplay to shine through.
09/28/06
Watching this film is an edifying but frustrating experience; dull in parts, amusing and illuminating in others. You’d still struggle to call it entertainment.
06/24/06
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03/04/06
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There's a troubling sense that von Trier is simply going through the motions.
02/21/06
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Manderlay isn't as powerful or as intense as Dogville, but it is still an intriguing and entertaining film, thanks to Bryce Dallas Howard's performance and John Hurt's hugely enjoyable narration.
10/29/05
A slow-burning, deeply disturbing fable that needs to be seen and discussed
10/27/05
It doesn't offer much insight into America's race issues, which might seem at first to be its target, but it works very well as a metaphor for America's intervention in Iraq.
06/03/08
If this trilogy finishes up strong, this middle portion may come to be seen as the weakest, though it's still forceful and intimate in the von Trier manner.
09/27/07
[It] raises interesting questions about what can happen in a democracy when its people are deeply corrupt. ... But likely to be more disheartened than enlightened.
09/12/07
A slightly more ponderous - if less dramatically satisfying - example of a Von Trier puppet show.
07/03/07
Relying on a daring script as executed by A-list actors, offers a potentially transformational experience for any inclined to contemplate an introspective, gut-wrenching meditation on the intractability of the legacy of slavery.
05/20/07
Manderlay is shorter but just as dull, pretentious and condescending as Dogville.
03/01/07
Manderlay loses in power what it lacks in novelty, even though it's more relevant than anything the year is likely to bring.
11/27/06
I was intrigued by the intensity and audaciousness of Dogville, but Manderlay feels stagey, earnest, long and pretentious. Its grainy, shaky hand-held camera-work only adds to the monotony.
11/24/06
... an anti-American rant that tediously plays out as a misplaced lecture by the pretentious filmmaker.
08/24/06
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