Manderlay
2005, 139 minutes, Rated MA
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard), her father (Willem Dafoe), and his villainous gang stumble across a remote rural property in Alabama called Manderlay.
There, they are surprised to find a group of white masters and black slaves, running a cotton plantation as if slavery had not been abolished seven decades earlier. Living under a strict code of conduct conceived by the plantation's owner and matriarch, Mam (Lauren Bacall), Manderlay's inhabitants rise and sleep under the fabric of a long-preserved status quo. But when Mam dies, Grace envisages a new dawn at Manderlay, where slave and free coalesce in a social order promoting freedom and racial equality between black and white. Powerful and confronting, Lars Von Trier's Manderlay is the second film in his acclaimed USA - Land Of Opportunities Trilogy.
- Director:
- Lars von Trier [15],
- Starring:
- John Hurt [57], Bryce Dallas Howard [10], Lauren Bacall [26], Willem Dafoe [59], Isaach De Bankole [7], Michael Abiteboul [1], Chloe Sevigny [25], Danny Glover [50],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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