Although described as filmed theater, Dogville feels more like filmed radio.
— J. Hoberman (The Village Voice)
Though von Trier speaks in a broadly anti-American dialect in [his memoir,] Trier on von Trier, in Dogville he is compliant with the cultural mores of Hollywood – the broad-brush morality of sin and punishment, the pornographically explicit representation of sex and violence. The most provocative element of his film is its misbranding as ‘avant-garde’ cinema.
— Joanna Kavenna (London Review of Books)
Synopsis: A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.