The House that Jack Built
2018
**
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, Riley Keough, Jeremy Davies, David Bailie, Ed Speleers, Marijana Jankovic
Jack, a wannabe architect, describes his life as a serial killer from the late 1970s into 1980s. He became known as Mr. Sophistifation, because he turned his victims into elaborate works of art. As Lars von Trier lives on controversy, I expected to be shocked and disgusted, but I completely failed to connect with this gruesome and intellectually empty 155-minute exercise. The epilogue is memorable, I must admit.
