Saturday, August 11

I don't care about your freaking dogma!


Thus cried The Duke in Baz Luhrman's Moulin
Rouge
. The movie is so lush, it practically
breathes hot air around your neck and down
your blouse. For all I care, it is the director's
way of saying that he doesn't give a flying hoot
about the movement started by Lars von Trier,
director of Breaking the Waves and
Dancer in the Dark.


Dogma95 espouses simplicity, natural lighting,
no fancy mise-en-scene and flashy camera
movements. If the dogma people were the
Spanish Inquisition, then Luhrman's head
would be on a plate by now.

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