The House That Jack Built

2018

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IFC Films | Release Date: December 14, 2018 | R

Starring: Bruno Ganz, David Bailie, Ed Speleers, Jack McKenzie, Jeremy Davies, Ji-tae Yu, Matt Dillon, Riley Keough, Siobhan Fallon, Sofie Gråbøl, Uma Thurman

Summary: Boundary-pushing cinematic visionary Lars von Trier returns with one of his most daring, masterfully provocative works yet. In five audacious episodes, failed architect and arch-sociopath Jack (Matt Dillon) recounts the elaborately orchestrated murders—each, as he views them, a towering work of art—that define his “career” as a serial… Expand

Director: Lars von Trier

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 152 min

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Lorry Kikta

Feb 8, 2019

Some people, including a couple of people I watched the film with, may see The House That Jack Built as pretentious nonsense. Others will see it as the glorification of violence. I see it for what it was intended to be, a work of complicated, violent, hilarious art. Read full review

IndieWireEric Kohn

May 16, 2018

The House That Jack Built is an often-horrifying, sadistic dive into a psychotic internal monologue, with intellectual detours about the nature of art in the world today, and puts considerable effort into stimulating discomfort at key moments. If you meet the work on those terms, or at least accept the challenge of wrestling with impeccable filmmaking that dances across moral barriers, it’s also possibly brilliant. Read full review

RogerEbert.comBrian Tallerico

Dec 17, 2018

The film finds von Trier wrestling with the claims of misogyny and misanthropy that have followed him his entire career, but not in the way you’d expect. If anything, he leans into both, daring you to look into the abyss with him as he interrogates his own dark side and banishes himself to the underworld. Read full review

The GuardianPeter Bradshaw

May 16, 2018

It is an ordeal of gruesomeness and tiresomeness that was every bit as exasperating as I had feared. Read full review

EmpireOlly Richards

Dec 10, 2018

One of von Trier’s most confrontingly horrible films is also one of his weakest. A story about a man disguising his lack of worthwhile contribution with violent self-interest is guilty of every point it’s making. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

May 16, 2018

The film’s most offensive qualities have nothing to do with its grotesque violence and displays of human mutilation, but its terminal navel-gazing and reductive, borderline harmful ideas about art. Read full review

The PlaylistJessica Kiang

May 16, 2018

Perhaps The House That Jack Built is the kind of film you make when you fervently want someone to stop you, to save you from yourself and the demons of your worst nature. Perhaps, this time, we should oblige. Read full review

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seantarani

Feb 21, 2019

Just a sophisticated masterpiece
And I wanna say the most people who dislike this masterpiece are just simple (Idiot)

xbornxtoxkillx

Aug 16, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. … Expand

MattBrady99

Dec 25, 2018

“You want me to show you to the next whisky bar?”

After giving it some thought, I’m still lost and filled with thoughts. How do I talk about the most polarizing movie of 2018. The movie that caused such a uproar at Cannes with 100 people walking out, which I bet made Lars sip on his warm… Expand

CosiMOLOGO

Feb 13, 2019

Si hay un director que ha dejado una huella por su peculiar estilo es Lars Von Trier, ahora, luego de llevarse el titulo de “persona no grata” el 2011 en Cannes, regresó al festival con esta obra que como se esperaba causo revuelo y dividió a la crítica. Antes de todo debo recordar que… Expand

JeBjBo

Jan 9, 2022

This is definitely Lars von Trier’s funniest film yet! A darkly comedic tale about a clumsy serial killer reminiscing about his greatest work.

bataguila

Aug 21, 2019

Es una comedia la 1ra hora, bien contada, no da hueva como otras de este director, la 2 hora ya es shock las muertes, no es pata para cualquier publico

Zoomy148

Jul 10, 2019

Невероятно скучный и унылый фильм.
Сходили в кинотеатр вместе с девушкой на этот “шедевр”.
Так сильно мы еще никогда не страдали на просмотре чего либо,невероятно растянутый хронометраж,ужасный сюжет,скука,уныние и вопрос :”зачем я сюда пришел?”,это все что будет преследовать вас на… Expand

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