Genre: Drama
Tagline: A case of mistaken identity
Plot: This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation.Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now they were heading south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which to take up residence. By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the gate, a dead oak tree towers over a heavy boulder with Manderlay hewn in monumental letters into the granite. Just as Grace, her father and his men are about to leave after a short break and a quick lunch, a young black woman runs up to the car. She knocks on Grace's window. She hammers at the glass in despair. Ignoring her father’s advice to leave others to their own affairs, Grace follows the girl through the gates of Manderlay and there, she finds a group of people living as if slavery had not been abolished seventy years earlier, with white masters and black slaves... Grace believes that she has a duty to make it up to the slaves for injustices they have suffered at the hands of her kind: 'we
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 Manderlay isn’t as powerful or as intense as Dogville, but it is still an intriguing and entertaining film, thanks to Bryce Dallas Howard’s performance and John Hurt’s hugely enjoyable narration.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
"Manderlay” actually does not need “Dogville” to be understood. It can hold its own as being among the boldest and most original movies in recent release.  --Phil Hall (FilmThreat.com)
I hope the final act of his indictment/valentine of American hypocrisy, 2007’s “Wasington,” can somehow bring Von Trier back to clarity in his arguments and more relish in his accusations. --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
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Lars von Trier
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| Frankly, there's no more effective way to communicate to the American audience than to offer a character we can express concern over. I guess it makes blistering criticism that much easier to swallow. 9/10 --Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
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