Red Desert

Essay

To Go on Living

Photo © Christian Geisnaes, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. Essay [wpbb post:title] By CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD On Red Desert and Melancholia, two tales of female despair amid environmental foreboding made nearly 50 years apart. Breaking the Waves Whatever he takes for story-capital punishment, sex, religion-Lars von Trier is an artist of female suffering. His theory of the…

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