![]() ![]() That compares to the 84,000 admissions, and $650,000 tally, in the territory for von Trier’s equally gruesome but apparently more intriguing Antichrist. ![]() In Germany, House That Jack Built sold just 15,500 tickets for a box office take of roughly $135,000. Britain’s Independent called it “Lars von Trier’s most deadening film yet,” while The Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney summed up the film this way: “A homicidal spree that doubles as an autoerotic ego massage.”įilmgoers in Europe, who have been von Trier’s most ardent supporters, mostly chose to ignore his latest provocation. “Sick, violent and a total bore” was The New York Times‘ take on the two-and-a-half-hour horror trip, which mixes its gore with long digressions into the nature of art and society - many of them illustrated by clips from von Trier’s own films. Instead of the shock and awe that usually accompanies a von Trier production, however, House That Jack Built has been greeted by a shrug. over the weekend, following its premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival and release across much of Europe. The pic, which stars Matt Dillon as Jack, a brutal but surprisingly self-reflective serial killer, premiered in the U.S. But with his latest, The House That Jack Built, von Trier’s self-hyped image as the troll of art house film may have played itself out.
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