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House That Jack Build, The (18)

Drama

A drama following events in the life of a serial killer.


The critical consensus

One of von Trier’s most confrontingly horrible films is also one of his weakest. A story about a man disguising his lack of worthwhile contribution with violent self-interest is guilty of every point it’s making.

**(*)(*)(*)Olly Richards, Empire Online, 10/12/2018

Not everyone will want to take this journey with von Trier through his own tortured psyche, but if you do leave before the final act, you’ll miss one hell of an ending.

****(*)Philip Concannon, The Skinny, 10/12/2018

The Danish auteur’s latest has been hyped as shockingly violent, but tension proves in short supply in this monotonous serial killer movie.

**(*)(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 12/12/2018

ust when it feels justifiable to dismiss the film as another of his tiresomely impish cinematic installations...he takes the film into a wild, Gustav Doré-inspired descent into Hell.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 13/12/2018

A grotesque, lopsided edifice – take a few steps back and look up in sickened awe.

*****David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 13/12/2018

Matt Dillon’s crazed architect recalls Lars von Trier’s grisly greatest hits in the director’s perversely timed black comedy.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 16/12/2018


Features about House That Jack Build, The (18)

Lars von Trier on The House That Jack Built

Philip Concannon, The Skinny, 10/12/2018

The only showing thing about Lars von Trier's mundane serial killer is our appetite for misogynistic violence.

Lucy Jones, The Independent, 13/12/2018

The House That Jack Built: in defence of the serial killer movie.

Elena Lazic, The Guardian, 13/12/2018

Where and when?

Cameo, Edinburgh from Friday December 14, 2018, until Thursday December 20, 2018. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

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