It doesn't amount to much.

I am sure that pissing on JJ Lee wouldn't move me as much now as it did ten years ago. So, I have to reassess my views on this shit.

a soap opera in the desert .. zzzzz

Humans get lost in the "African" desert practicing a play while a black old man watches silently from distant. The universe's tale perhaps ?

What an unpleasant and nasty little film. The film is a character study of human nature with a bunch of unappealing characters. You can hardly become involved in a film when everyone in it is a jerk. Very slow moving, but has some stunning visual moments. The acting is good.

Bad Jennifer Jason Leigh!! What that women was going to her husband, with the bus driver, so pitiful. Kudos to the bus driver, for not giving in.

One of the lesser known dogme films is about a group of people who get stranded in no mans land in the middle of a huge african desert. Here they rehearse King Lear to pass time, but gradually the desert gets to them and conflicts start. Variable performances by the cast and an at times dull story, but all in all worth seeing.

Not a bad movie, but I have liked the other Dogme films I have seen a lot better. Good actors, but the characters are more annoying than convincing.

The writing/directing style reminded me of Hotel. In other words, a bit too artsy-fartsy for my tastes. I'd be curious to see another Dogme 95 movie though before I pass judgment on the movement.

cleverrrrrr dogma 95 if u like cdontroversial films this is one

Intense, and despite a wide open sky, claustrophobic.

Not my favourite Dogme, but good stuff all the same.

Dogme #4 Human isolation exposed. Worth watching

Forgot how much I liked the Dogma style.

I got over Dogma films awhile ago because when they sucked...it was worse than a home video of my trailertrash cousin's "sweet sixteen" birthday...wait...OMG!!! THAT's BRILLIANT!!! Anyways, five stars because the film succeeds at showing the watcher a mirrored image of oneself and asks "Is this the promised end?"

(***): [img]http://images.chrc4work.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] I liked the idea and execution of this film. Reminded my alot of Van Sant's [i]Gerry[/i], a favorite of mine. David Bradley is quite good here.

As a Dane I feel proud, that You people like this film so much

A crushing depiction of human hatred and despair, this is about as good as Dogme ever got. A rag-tag group of tourists get stranded in the African desert and pass the time by putting on "King Lear". It's not long before the cracks in thie "civilised" existence become apparent, and what cracks they are. Seriously impressive, seriously disturbing, and absolutely vital.

One of the most impressive films I ever saw. Here, like in von Trier's Dogville, are separated group of people who cannot escape the place they are in, and can't avoid each other. There is a phrase in a film, that these ways will do a full striptease of human basic needs. They did, and the way it is shown is... beautiful?..

A powerful character led piece full of comment on the human condition. How easily the thin veneer of civilisation is scraped away!