It's an extremely cynical perspective, enforced by some disappointingly turgid melodrama, but keep in mind, this movie was made before an almost uniformly poor and black population was left to rot in New Orleans floodwaters. Even at his worst, von Trier...read the complete Manderlay (2005) review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Lars von Trier is back, so to speak--he's never visited the States, which makes his snide anti-American allegories even more infuriating to someā¦.But the story holds up well enough to deliver a pointed critique of establishing self-rule at gunpoint....read the complete Manderlay (2005) review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)