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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 741952303497
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107014154
- Studio: KOCH Entertainment Distribution
- Release Date: October 5, 2004
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Average Customer Review:
(1 customer review)
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #26358 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #907 in Foreign Films (See Top 100 Foreign Films Bestsellers)
- #10 in Danish (See Top 100 Danish Bestsellers)
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Product Description
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Review
Premiere, 06/01/2004, p.26, "[F]ascinating....It's specialty stuff, to be sure..." Entertainment Weekly, 06/11/2004, p.96, "THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS glories in art, life, and the faith that binds them." Chicago Sun-Times, 09/10/2004, p.32, "[T]he entire enterprise is infected with a spirit of mischievous play..." Los Angeles Times, 06/04/2004, p.E6, "[A] complete original. This ingenious, almost indescribable film won't remind you of anything else because there's nothing else like it." Uncut, 12/01/2003, p.150, "It's a fascinating, beguiling, occasionally confounding, then suddenly emotive journey." Film Comment, 05/01/2004, p.74, "It's a double, and eventually all-consuming game." New York Times, 05/26/2004, p.E5, "[A] suave, pseudo-scientific examination of human behavior." Rolling Stone, 06/10/2004, p.98, "[A] spellbinding mind teaser, the ultimate game for movie buffs."
Title Note
IN THEATRES: MAY 26, 2004 (NY)
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Product Notes
With THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor, director Jorgen Leth, forcing him to remake his classic 1967 short, "The Perfect Human," five different times, with a series of increasingly outlandish guidelines. His goal is to break down the abnormally stable Leth, teaching him a valuable life lesson in the process. In the first film, von Trier sends Leth to Cuba and sets his first seemingly insurmountable rule: make a film that consists of shots that are no longer than twelve frames at a time. Miraculously, Leth uses his forced limitations to create a beautiful work, which obviously irks von Trier. Next up, von Trier challenges Leth to return to Bombay--which he calls the "most wretched place on Earth"--in order to confront some demons from his past. Once again, the clever mentor rises to the challenge. Frustrated and sensing defeat, von Trier's next challenge is deceptively simple: Leth must remake his film with no limitations whatsoever. He travels to Brussels and succeeds once again. After a foray into animation, von Trier creates the final obstruction, a film in which von Trier admits defeat and pays tribute to his mentor. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS is a thoughtful, entertaining meditation on the filmmaking process.
Customer Reviews for "The Five Obstructions (DVD)"
Most Recent Customer Reviews  Lars Von Trier is a jerk, February 9, 2008
By Idioterne
and he knows it. In this documentary, Von Trier challenges his mentor Jorgen
Leth, another Danish filmmaker to make the same film in 5 different ways using 5
obstructions. One version must be animated, one version must consist of nothing
but 3 second shots, etc. Jorgen has lost his will to create art and Von trier
bullies him back to life and the results are uplifting.
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