High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewHouse That Jack Built Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/house-that-jack-built/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The House That Jack Built Review: Architects Do It Better https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/house-that-jack-built-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/house-that-jack-built-movie-review/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:00:33 +0000 Deirdre Crimmins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=95106 You can, and probably should, accuse director Lars von Trier of being many things, but boring is never one of them. He’s inflammatory and intentionally offensive, and his films follow suit. Through the various genre filters he has flirted with over the years, he’s given us deeply personal and deeply disturbing reflections on the human...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/house-that-jack-built-movie-review/feed/ 2 Cannes Journal: ‘The House That Jack Built’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/cannes-2018-house-that-jack-built-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/cannes-2018-house-that-jack-built-movie-review/#comments Tue, 22 May 2018 16:00:02 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=91663 Lars von Trier has been banned from Cannes since 2011 when he joked about his own fascist tendencies. Invited back (but not in competition), the Danish master of the melancholic returns with a dark descent into damnation. ‘The House That Jack Built’ is a serial killer film like no other, tracing the title character (played...

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