Two years after announcing that he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, the Danish Lars von Trier, a big name in contemporary auteur cinema, is going to make a new film, according to documents consulted by AFP on Thursday.
His project, titled “After,” received 1.3 million crowns (around 174,000 euros) in funding from the Danish Film Institute (DFI), according to a list published by the latter.
Lars von Trier, 68, is also the screenwriter of this feature film produced by Zentropa, according to DFI.
No further details regarding the project are known.
In July, one of his favourite actors, the Swede Stellan Skarsgård, told the online newspaper Taxidrivers that von Trier was working on his new film “from home”.
“After” is set to be the Dane’s fifteenth feature film since graduating from Copenhagen Film School in 1982.
A fan of dark humour, the Copenhagen native had said in a now-deleted Instagram post that “with a bit of luck, there should (…) remain (in me) a few decent films”.
The father of four, who has the word “FUCK” tattooed on his fingers, has never shied away from controversy.
In 2011, von Trier said he understood Hitler “a little” at the Cannes Film Festival during the presentation of his film “Melancholia”.
He was immediately banned from the Croisette but, remaining in competition, his film earned its interpreter Kirsten Dunst the prize for best actress.
The Dane, father with Thomas Vinterberg of “Dogma” which preached formal sobriety in cinema, in direct contact with reality, immediately apologized, insisting on the fact that he was “neither anti-Semitic, nor racist, nor Nazi.”
He also directed “Dogville,” “Nymphomaniac” and “The House that Jack Built” and received the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2000 for his film “Dancer in the Dark.”
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