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, entitled Afterreceived 1.3 million crowns (around 174,000 euros) in subsidies from the Danish Film Institute (DFI), according to a list published by the latter.
Lars von Trier, 68, is also the screenwriter of the feature film, which is produced by Zentropa, according to DFI. No further details about 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.
Controversial filmmaker
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 et The House that Jack Built and received the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2000 for his film Dancer in the Dark.
Björk, the lead actress in the feature film, revealed in 2017 that she had been sexually harassed by “a Danish director”. Since the singer had only appeared in a handful of films, the media immediately made the connection with Lars von Trier. Accusations that the filmmaker has rejected.
- BFMTV.com
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