Struggling against survival, Grace, a young courageous and smart girl, who flees from a dangerous mob that wants to kill her, goes to a small town in Colorado, where people believe that she is innocent and accepts to hide her for working for them, but when the mob offers a reward for the one who catch her, everything changes.
There's nothing static about [Von Trier's] technique, but everything else about the movie is dreary and closed off.
Film Scouts
June 21, 2007
An exceptionally literary film that at the same time employs extremely theatrical set design. Leave it to the mad genius of Denmark to kick cinema's ass once again.
For all of "Dogville's" strengths -- its powerful performances, the ingenious staging, how quickly and completely the audience accepts its stylized reality -- its take-home message is, ultimately, measly.
What Lars von Trier has achieved is avant-gardism for idiots.
Orlando Sentinel
May 28, 2004
Fascinating for a while but, in the end, just sleep-inducing.
Princeton Town Topics
May 02, 2007
After about an hour, the novelty wears off, and you're aching to see an actual animal and real shrubs. After two hours, you feel disappointed when you realize that this wouldn't even make a good play. After three hours, it's downright infuriating.
