Lars Von Triers –you know the Danish director behind the superb Bjork musical “Dancer In The Dark”? So you know him right? I know him better. From “Europa” –a terrific movie which ends with one of the coolest deaths I’ve ever seen and the 8 hour “The Kingdom Part one” which I caught in one sitting at the Walter Reade” to last year’s apocalyptic masterpiece “Melancholy”, I’ve managed to watch them all with only occasional regrets.
“Melancholy” starred Kirsten Dunst , you know For Science wrote a song about her, and, more to the point Charlotte Gainsbourg who is a Patron saint of rock nyc ever since we caught her second ever live performance and found her absolutely incredible: sort of shy but certain. Gainsbourg had previously appeared in an especially devastating piece of art film, and one of the Von Triers movies I actively dislike, “Antichrist” with an emaciated Gainsbourg in a bloody and deviant relationship with Willem Defoe. After watching it you’d have thought she’d have passed on “Melancholy” and run back to Beck’s studio with a song in her heart. Well, “Melancholy”? All she had to do was die with everybody else.
No excuse for “Nymphomania” –the latest Von Trier movie and in which… well, actually I am not sure what to expect… Four hour hours of pornography in soft and hardcore versions is what I’ve heard. There are lines, right? Well, apparently not and even if there is, Gainsbourg, her mother and her father’s child, appears to have done a pretty good job of crossing them.
Well, if I can’t have a new album by her, Charlotte having sex with two men will have to do.
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