September 30, 2011
Lars von Trier
GQ interviews von Trier and it appears he is as unusual as his films:
Have you never done anything in your life that you’re genuinely sorry for?
“No.”
Really?
“No.”
That’s astonishingly unusual.
“Maybe, but that’s maybe where I’m really sick in my mind. You can’t be sorry about something that’s fundamentally you. Maybe I’m a freak in that sense.” He ponders a moment, wondering whether he can think of any exceptions to this rule. Perhaps just one:
“I’m sorry when I was a child I had a little bird that I fed, and I was so young I forgot it when I was on holiday, and then it was dead when I came home. That I was sorry for. That was terrible. But then again, I forgot. And I feel somehow that I was criticized highly for this Cannes, and I must say that I feel like a child who has been falling over on his bike, and I’ve been yelled at for that. Yes, you will yell at the child for some time that he has not been driving carefully enough, but you can’t continuously yell at him because he hurt himself.”
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Thanks, Andrew.
“Just watching Dunst’s face, as it shifts between amusement, concern, bafflement, horror, compassion, and pain, without ever losing its dignity, tells you as much about what is happening as Trier’s words do.”
“I don’t remember how she said it,” he says, “but I remember my reply: ‘If this was a scene from Dynasty, it was really a poor one.’ “
I haven’t tried to watch “Antichrist” yet. Have any of you?
I just added it to my Netflix queue, Rick. Maybe I’ll watch it tonight.
Rick, I watched the first third, but it’s more intense than I want right now, and reads sort of like a two person stage play rather than a film.
I’ll have to be in the right mood. I’m interested enough to see it, when I think I can see it the way through. There’s enough press to put me off.
I may never. If I do I will probably sit alone with it.
I’m not afraid to watch movies alone. I watched Oleanna alone. It wasn’t easy.
I don’t think the link is right. Ah, well, my apologies.