What are we meant to do with the new film from Lars von Trier?
"Lars von Trier, we get it, " wrote film critic Wendy Ide in UK paper The Times.
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Lars von Trier's sci-fi drama Melancholia was named best movie at last year's awards, held in Berlin.
Von Trier claimed each morning she would say "Mr von Trier, I despise you, " and spit at him.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
The Danish director Lars von Trier takes a break from messing with America to provoke his cinematic mentor Jorgen Leth.
Kidman's two films are Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier, and The Human Stain, in which she stars alongside Anthony Hopkins.
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Indeed, a few years ago, it was questionable whether von Trier, who is famously multi-phobic, would be able to make another film.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
We headed for our first stop: the modest German city of Trier.
Their number includes four previous recipients of the festival's highest honour - Jane Campion, Britain's Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier.
Every supporter - whether you support Wigan or you support Man City - loves a trier who gives everything that he has got.
"The relationship of mutual trust between the bishops and the head of the institute has been destroyed, " the Bishop of Trier, Stephan Ackermann, said.
Only von Trier would think to hitch overheated political fury to a stripped-down dramatic technique, and only he could begin to get away with it.
"I think that if you are, shall we say, sensitive, then there is a good side and a bad side about it, " said von Trier.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
Von Trier has a reputation for being tough on his actors.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
Elsewhere, Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress prize for her shocking turn in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist, " featuring scenes of genital mutilation that left audiences stunned.
Written by von Trier, it inverts and upends the traditional idea of a teacher inspiring his student, and its effect upon the rest of the film is revelatory.
This requires the government to carry the heavy burden of persuading the trier of fact that beyond a reasonable doubt that the elements of the crime are proved.
Do you think that Lars von Trier is a woman-hater?
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
Calculatedly self-promoting in his self-effacing trickery, von Trier again makes a work of an audacity this time, not as tragedy but as farce that belongs more to advertising than to cinema.
"I think that the testimony will cause the trier of fact to question some of the central and primary themes the prosecution has offered, " said Simpson attorney Carl Douglas.
Von Trier is as prickly and arrogant as you might expect, but you begin to wonder if his attitude is part of a plan to make Leth look good in contrast.
Trier and his co-scenarist, Eskil Vogt, have a keen sense of the rivalries and resentments at work in an ingrown circle of friends, but the vain gamesmanship pushes it to the sidelines.
To prevail in a civil case, the plaintiff need only persuade the trier of fact by a mere preponderance of evidence that the elements of the cause of action have been proved.
Despite, or perhaps because of, what he describes as his "sensitive" nature, von Trier is one of today's great contemporary European auteurs, considered responsible for spearheading a revival in the fortunes of Scandinavian filmmaking.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
Von Trier was labeled a woman-hater for the wince-inducingly horrific final scene in which female lead Charlotte Gainsbourg takes a pair of rusty scissors to her genitals and performs a DIY clitoridectomy right to camera.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
Misogyny couldn't be further from the truth, according to Von Trier, who says he sees himself up there on the screen: "I mostly see myself as the female character, " the 53-year-old director told CNN in Cannes.
CNN: Lars von Trier denies woman-hating in controversial film
She gave the participants a well-known stress test, called the Trier Social Stress Test, in which they had to give an impromptu speech explaining why they were the best candidate for a job, in front of a stony-faced panel.
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