Stomach-turning slasher marks Von Trier’s Cannes comeback
CANNES (Reuters)— Lars Von Trier received a standing ovation when he arrived at the Cannes Film Festival, seven years after being thrown out for quipping that he was a nazi who sympathized with Hitler.
But if anyone was expecting the Danish provocateur to rein in his impulse to offend, he soon put them right with “The House That Jack Built,” an extremely dark comedy about a serial killer who uses mutilated corpses to create art.
Matt Dillon plays Jack who fills his walk-in freezer with dioramas of human flesh, with Uma Thurman his first victim, giving him a taste for murder and torture.