The Idiots

    The Idiots
    1998

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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