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	Manderlay (2006) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Manderlay is an old plantation in Alabama with a vitriolic and iron-fisted woman at the helm and a slew of cornbread talkin' colored folk.
		Manderlay becomes less productive, the Negroes are bankrupted by white carpetbaggers and Grace is violently raped by one of the field Negroes she most desperately wanted to help.
		Manderlay is directed with a bit of a lighter touch, thus the film isn’t quite as over-the-top as it’s predecessor.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2006/manderlay.php (1588 words)

	Manderlay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shot on an extremely minimal soundstage with no walls, Manderlay 's mise en scene differs from its predecessor with the inclusion of horse, a mule, and a sandstorm.
		It's soon obvious that slaves are never actually free, but given a purely symbolic kind of "employment." Grace stays at Manderlay, and with the help of her father's gangsters, attempts to teach the slaves American ideals of freedom and democracy.
		Grace discovers that Manderlay is a slave plantation, an institution that was legally abolished 70 years before.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manderlay (1060 words)

	Brian Dauth, "Manderlay"
		Manderlay is the second installment in a trilogy von Trier began with Dogville (2003).
		Grace goes with her through a hole in the fence and is confronted with what at first glance seems to be a scene out of the past: a fl man stripped to the waist and tied to the missing piece of iron fence, awaiting a whipping for some transgression.
		In Manderlay, Grace is a young innocent seeking to bring justice and equality to a place that seems to be stuck in time, just as Howard is a young and aspiring actor who hopes to succeed in a difficult role in only her third film.
	mrzine.monthlyreview.org /dauth290106.html (1268 words)

	Nicole Kidman: Manderlay: American Racism Is Alive and Well
		It’s 1933 and Grace, her mob-boss father, and his cadre of gangsters have left Dogville, Colorado and found themselves in Manderlay, an Alabama slave plantation — the only one that exists since slavery was abolished 70 years earlier.
		Generally, von Trier takes his angelic female characters to psychological and physical extremes in order to illustrate the cruelty of contemporary life, but Manderlay represents a change in that his central woman has the upper hand, only to discover how ill-prepared she is to handle this plantation as it struggles toward democracy.
		That change in political skewering demonstrates von Trier has plenty of ammo to go around, and Grace’s growing frustration with the slaves’ refusal to be happy about their “freedom” has unsettling undercurrents that flow all the way to our current occupation of Iraq.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/bias/01079_manderlay_american_racism_alive_well.html (852 words)

	Back on the Plantation - Lars von Trier's Manderlay. By Dana Stevens
		Manderlay, on the other hand, is curiously unmoving despite the extreme nature of its subject matter and the endless tricks it uses to keep us at its mercy.
		Manderlay, it seems, is a kind of racist Brigadoon, a place frozen nearly 70 years in the past, where the white mistress, Mam (Lauren Bacall), rules in a state of antebellum absolutism.
		After Mam dies, Grace, right-thinking white liberal that she is, chooses to stay at Manderlay to help "liberate" the freed slaves from their unenlightened ways and tutor them in the arts of democracy and economic independence.
	www.slate.com /id/2134922 (1073 words)

	Manderlay (2005) - IMDb user comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The inhabitants of Manderlay were free within their system, but Grace was so completely blinded by what her culture had taught her about "freedom" and "democracy" and the inferiority of all other ways of life.
		Manderlay is an excellent movie for anybody who enjoys being provoked or how wants to confirm her/his prejudice about von Trier as a weird director with tendencies to be proud-to-be-old-Europe.
		Manderlay is a rough film to watch, not because of it's political aspects or it's philosophical view-points, but because of it's narrative simplicity.
	german.imdb.com /rg/title-tease/comments-bottom/title/tt0342735/usercomments (3925 words)

	Casual Critic Mini Reviews: Manderlay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Manderlay is the center part of Lars von Trier's trilogy titled USA - Land of Opportunities, following the superb yet very controversial Dogville and to be completed by Washington(2007).
		As Grace stays on in Manderlay to guide and help the newly freed men and women find their way into democracy, she will discover many shocking truth about how people adapt to democracy and why they would perhaps even find slavery a convenient shelter from the difficulties of making decisions.
		Manderlay was featured at the Cannes festival and is expected to open limited in USA in February 2006.
	www.thecasualcritic.net /Reviews/archives/2005/11/30/manderlay.php (484 words)

	Trust Film Sales
		Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA.
		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 fl slaves...
		Manderlay is the second film in the USA trilogy, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe.
	www.trust-film.dk /off_vis_film.asp?id=148 (690 words)

	'Manderlay' betrays von Trier's earlier masterpiece
		"Manderlay" is von Trier's sequel to "Dogville," the second of a trilogy, we're told, and in every way it's a betrayal of the earlier masterpiece.
		While traveling through the Deep South with her father (Willem Dafoe), in 1933, she comes across Manderlay, a plantation in which slavery is still, somehow, in effect, 70 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
		Grace is outraged, and when the matriarch (Lauren Bacall) dies, she decides to stay at Manderlay, along with a small posse of guards.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/MANDERLAY.DTL&type=printable (505 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Manderlay
		Once again the practical paternal crime lord warns Grace that her attempts to abolish slavery at Manderlay will result in a different kind of enslavement and reminds her of the pet bird she freed in childhood was found dead beneath her bedroom window.
		Manderlay's owner, Mam (Lauren Bacall, "Dogville") begs Grace from her deathbed to burn the book used to run the plantation, but Grace insists all should be revealed.
		Manderlay's layout doesn't make the same strong visual statement that Dogville did, the wide scope of a plantation inherently less interesting than a town when chalked on a sound stage floor and the malaise seems to have affected cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle ("Dogville," "Millions"), whose lighting is less definitive and lensing less crisp.
	www.reelingreviews.com /manderlay.htm (1366 words)

	London Film Festival - Films - Manderlay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Manderlay's scrutiny of the history of slavery and race relations begins in 1933.
		Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) having fled Dogville, they arrive in Alabama at the gate of a troubled plantation where the abolition of slavery 70 years earlier has been ignored.
		But in von Trier's world the road to hell is paved with naïve good intentions, and Grace's determination to bring democracy and equality doesn't allow for the free will the former slaves might choose to exercise, nor for her own uncomfortable erotic fantasies.
	www.lff.org.uk /films_details.php?FilmID=765 (547 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - Manderlay
		Thematically and stylistically, "Manderlay" continues von Trier's obsessive exploration of American history, a survey that began with "Dogville." This time around reinventing race relations in the South, circa 1933.
		In "Manderlay," the freed slaves don't particularly wish to be freed, and they are fearful of their new power to make decisions.
		There are no heroes or heroines in "Manderlay." Grace could have been but for Von Trier she spoils everything around her by being too stupid, idealistic, and emotional.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?action=13&articleID=411 (1348 words)

	Review: Manderlay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Manderlay is the middle segment of a trilogy and, like its predecessor, Dogville, it uses a predominantly bare stage as its setting: an Alabama town called Manderlay where slavery exists in 1930.
		Manderlay's dialogue is as stagy and false as it is filled with moralizing, and that makes it difficult to endure lengthy conversations.
		There is thought-provoking material in Manderlay, but its source and the manner in which it is presented encourages the cynical viewer to dismiss it as the ravings of someone with a myopic agenda to pursue.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/manderlay.html (994 words)

	Manderlay
		Manderlay, written and directed by Lars Von Trier, is a surprising film, not in the least by its form.
		Manderlay is part two of the Dogville trilogy, using the same main character and presented in the same manner as the first part, which is to say by basically filming a stage set, using the twin conventions of minimalist theater and WKRP in Cincinnati.
		It would, therefore have been perfectly possible to imagine a remote Russian estate in which serfs were still virtual slaves or possibly even actual slaves in the early 1900s, living the same lives their grandparents had lived as the legal chattel of the nobles in the 1850s.
	www.scoopy.com /manderlay.htm (1644 words)

	Manderlay London Movie Review
		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.
		Manderlay is the second installment in Von Trier’s planned USA trilogy.
		The main problem with Manderlay is that it lacks the powerful scenes that distinguished Dogville and as a result, it often feels like a watered down version of the previous film.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_2586.html (342 words)

	Manderlay - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Manderlay is the second instalment of a "Land of Opportunity"-style trilogy.
		On the road with her gangster father (Willem Dafoe) in 1933, Grace arrives at an isolated rural southern property, Manderlay, where the dying chatelaine, Mam (Lauren Bacall), has managed to maintain an antebellum slave household.
		The story of Manderlay apparently came from a passage in The Story of O, the supposedly true story of a slave response to freedom.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film-reviews/manderlay/2006/11/30/1164777710107.html (497 words)

	Manderlay (2006): Reviews
		To state the obvious, Manderlay is often patently offensive in its racial politics, and it surely isn't for everyone.
		To warm to Manderlay, the chilly second installment of Lars von Trier's not-yet-finished three-part Brechtian allegory examining United States history, you must be willing to tolerate the derision and moral arrogance of a snide European intellectual thumbing his nose at American barbarism.
		The subject being race relations, Manderlay is bound to stir considerable debate in intellectual circles, but given the director's abstract style and use of characters to enact an agenda, it's a discussion that will exclude the general public, who will ignore it as they did "Dogville."
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/manderlay (1796 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The second panel of the trilogy begun in 2003 with Dogville (presented at Cannes in competition), Manderlay is the occasion for Lars Von Trier's eighth visit to the Festival.
		With its minimalist set, Manderlay returns to the stage conventions which were the core of Lars Von Trier's preceding film.
		Fired by a determination to change the situation, the young woman first has to win the confidence of those whose defense she has assumed.
	www.festival-cannes.fr /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4271486 (1723 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Film Comment - Von Trier on Manderlay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Manderlay," the second segment of Lars von Trier's trilogy that began with "Dogville," played in competition in the Festival de Cannes, in May 2005.
		But what's funny, or alien, to me in "Manderlay" is that the film involves other races, which I think is fun.
		On a preface written by a French writer for "The Story of O," about some liberated slaves who were starving and wanted their master back, because at least then they had something to eat.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=543 (672 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Review - Manderlay
		Grace, the mob daughter protagonist of Dogville (first played by Nicole Kidman, now replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard after rumors of von Trier’s exacting filming techniques), encounters a young fl woman beseeching her help as she travels in Alabama of 1933 with her father (Willem Dafoe is also a replacement, this time for James Caan).
		It’s easier to believe she might enter the world of the Manderlay plantation and believe she could affect change, and more plausible that she might not necessarily be right.
		When Mam dies, Grace takes over Manderlay and tries to reverse matters (in one scene designed to shock and serve little else), she even has the white overseers to serve the now-freed slaves in flface, a decision lacking in both sensibility and sensitivity.
	www.tailslate.net /reviews/index.asp?ID=239&lst=n&dpt=film (644 words)

	NYFF Diary: Manderlay - Cinematical
		And so begins Manderlay, Lars von Trier's latest school play version of American history, the follow-up to Dogville in a proposed trilogy titled "America the Beautiful." To call that title "ironic" wouldn't even begin to approach what Lars von Trier is all about.
		Manderlay is Dogville remade with (no pun intended) the shackles taken away.
		Generally I think that a lot of the anger people are directing towards Manderlay is unwarranted; it could safely be called an unpalatable film, but it shouldn't be mistaken for a bad one.
	www.cinematical.com /2005/09/30/nyff-diary-manderlay (1174 words)

	Manderlay (2006) : HollywoodJesus.com : DVD Reviews, Previews and Spiritual Commentary
		Manderlay probably has something in it to piss off just about everyone.
		Grace is outraged when she discovers that at Manderlay slavery is still in effect.
		The owner of the plantation (Mam) soon dies and rather than let the family continue the exploitation of the slaves, Grace (with the muscle of her father’s gangsters) sets them free and enslaves the family.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /dvdDetail.cfm?i=9302646B-926F-2802-F3C5508A6495B110 (1360 words)

	Review: Manderlay
		Manderlay is the middle segment of a trilogy and, like its predecessor, Dogville, it uses a predominantly bare stage as its setting: an Alabama town called Manderlay where slavery exists in 1930.
		Manderlay's dialogue is as stagy and false as it is filled with moralizing, and that makes it difficult to endure lengthy conversations.
		There is thought-provoking material in Manderlay, but its source and the manner in which it is presented encourages the cynical viewer to dismiss it as the ravings of someone with a myopic agenda to pursue.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/m/manderlay.html (994 words)

	Manderlay (2005): Bryce Dallas Howard, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Isaach De Bankolé - PopMatters Film Review
		Manderlay opens with Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard), after she has burned Dogville, making her way across the country in search of a new home with her gangster father (Willem Dafoe).
		Grace can't tell her charges apart, and when Wilhelm suggests that she consider Manderlay's fl population a menagerie of creatures too fragile for liberty, a twisted echo of the typical argument for affirmative action.
		Manderlay's slideshow conclusion is similarly confused, the kind of scene that causes von Trier's critics to label him strident and arrogant.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/manderlay-2006.shtml (1123 words)

	"Manderlay" ~~ a Cinema Signals Movie Review by the Filmiliar Cineaste
		While his moral vision and dramatic insights may not be things to dispute, the particular ironies he proposes about self-perpetuation of evils are a little too exaggerated to be convincing or useful.
		Called Manderlay, its perimeter fence defines an oasis of civilization, but one with the uncivility of slavery.
		What this series tends to suggest is the filmmakers' desire to be recognized on the world stage, and that he's not above a bit of commercial provocation to promote it.
	variagate.com /manderly.htm?RT (967 words)

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