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Lars von Trier provokes Cannes with 'I'm a Nazi'
comments
Director makes
controversial jokes claiming to 'understand Hitler' at Cannes film festival
press conference for his latest film, Melancholia
Lars Von Trier is known for being unpredictable, quixotic,
puckish and deliberately provocative. But even he over-leaped his high standards
of eccentricity as he spoke before the Cannes premiere of
Melancholia,
He also jokingly claimed he
was writing a four-hour-long hardcore porn film featuring
Melancholia stars
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst. It would, he said, contain "a lot
of very, very unpleasant sex".
The nazism
remarks, which were jestingly made in response to a
question about his German roots, would probably spell career suicide if uttered
outside the rarefied atmosphere of the Cannes film
festival – and indeed may yet.
As Melancholia's star Dunst
looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a
restraining arm on his shoulder – he said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long
time and was very happy being a Jew ... Then it turned out that I was not a Jew
... I found out that I was really a Nazi which also gave me some pleasure.
"What can I say? I
understand Hitler. He did some wrong things, absolutely, but I can see him
sitting there in his bunker at the end ... I sympathise with him, yes, a little
bit."
Attempting to extricate
himself from his self-dug grave, he added: "But come on, I am not for the second
world war, and I am not against Jews. I am very much for Jews; well not too much
because Israel is a pain in the ass. But still, how can I get out of this
sentence ... OK I'm a Nazi."
Lars von Trier claims to
'understand Hitler' at Cannes press conference, and Xan Brooks reviews his
latest film, Melancholia.
The organisers of the
festival issued a statement saying they had been "disturbed" by the remarks,
that he had apologised, and that the festival would never allow the event to
become the forum for such pronouncements.
Von Trier issued his own
statement: "If I have hurt someone this morning by the words I said, I sincerely
apologise. I am not antisemitic or racially prejudiced in any way, nor am I a
Nazi."
The question that led to
von Trier's remarks came from the Times film critic, Kate Muir, about his German
origins and the influence of the Gothic on his work.
Von Trier said "he let
himself be egged on by a provocation", the festival statement said.
In an another capricious
riff, which Gainsbourg and Dunst watched in a state of what appeared to be
nervous hilarity, Von Trier claimed Dunst had insisted she be filmed naked for a
scene in Melancholia. "And now she wants more," claimed the Danish director.
"That's how women are, and Charlotte is behind this. They want a really hardcore
film this time, and I am doing my best.
"I said let's have a lot of
talking in it, and they said, 'We don't give a shit about the dialogue, we just
want to have a lot of very very unpleasant sex,' and that's what I am writing
right now."
No one could accuse
Melancholia of a lack of ambition. If Terrence Malick's
Tree of Life, which screened earlier in the festival, sets a family drama
against the origins of the cosmos, then Von Trier's
Melancholia sets a family drama against the end of the world.
The film's first screening
was greeted with applause, but has already split its early viewers – though it
seems likely that the film itself will be overshadowed by the director's
ill-advised public statements. In any case, Von Trier himself is apparently
siding with Melancholia's sternest critics. He said, "Maybe it's crap. Of course
I hope not, but there's quite a big possibility that this might be really not
worth seeing."
He said that he felt he may
have got carried away with the film's high Germanic romanticism, with the first
10 minutes devoted to a series of visually arresting, apocalyptic tableaux set
against the complete Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Of the mood of the film, he
said: "Melancholia is a good title ... and melancholy is a quality that is in
all art that I like, and I am sure it is part of all good art. It was the
starting point of the film and the inspiration came from there. To be
melancholic has to do with a longing, which is something a little special for
this film."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/may/18/lars-von-trier-cannes-2011-nazi-comments?intcmp=239