Synopsis
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
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Cast
- Bodil JørgensenKaren
- Jens AlbinusStoffer
- Anne Louise HassingSusanne
- Troels LybyHenrik
- Nikolaj Lie KaasJeppe
- Louise MieritzJosephine
- Henrik PripPed
- Luis MesoneroMiguel
- Knud Romer JørgensenAxel
- Trine MichelsenNana
- 80
Rolling Stone
With shocking humor and surprising grace, Von Trier creates something unique and memorable. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
A highly calculated act of mischief that sounds like a stunt cooked up for Howard Stern's radio show. - 63
San Francisco Examiner
Demonstrates that sadomasochistic streak in von Trier that equates the raw with the experimental. - 63
Chicago Tribune
It's interesting - in its own let-it-all-hang-out, shaky-camera way. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
It's overtly about provocation, set in a tony Danish suburb where a group of men and women living commune-style in an empty house are discovering their "inner idiots" by pretending to be developmentally challenged. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Becomes guilty of the very prejudice that his film has so obviously tried to subvert. It's too bad -- the rest of it is hilarious. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The group's intent is not to insult those physically or mentally challenged in any manner of degree but, rather, to disturb middle-class types as much as they possibly can. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
Tries to be daring and iconoclastic but winds up seeming as spoiled and childish as its main characters.