Danish director Lars Von Trier to direct new film after 6 years absence

After his last feature film “The House That Jack Built”, the 68-year-old director is back in action for what will be his fifteenth film.

Two years after announcing that he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Danish director Lars von Trier, a big name in contemporary auteur cinema, is to make a new film. According to documents from the Danish Film Institute (DFI), his project, entitled Afterreceived 1.3 million crowns (around 174,000 euros) in subsidies from him. Lars von Trier, 68, is also the screenwriter of this feature film produced by Zentropa, specifies DFI.

No further details about the project are known. In July, one of his favorite actors, the Swede Stellan Skarsgård, told the online newspaper Taxidrivers that Von Trier was working on his new film.from his home“.After” is set to be the Dane’s fifteenth feature film since graduating from Copenhagen Film School in 1982.

A fan of dark humor, the Copenhagen native had said in a now-deleted Instagram post that “with any luck it should (…) stay (in me) some decent movies“.

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 “A little” Hitler at the Cannes Film Festival, on the occasion of 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 the “Dogma“who preached formal sobriety in cinema, in direct contact with reality, had immediately apologized, insisting on the fact that he was not”neither anti-Semitic, nor racist, nor Nazi“.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2000 for his film Dancer in the Darkhe also realized Dogville, Nymphomaniac And The House that Jack Built.

In 2017, singer Bjork had accused “a Danish director” of sexual harassment on the set of a film. While she did not directly name her harasser, it was not difficult to put a name to this character, since her short film career includes only one film under the direction of a Danish director, the musical comedy Dancer in the Darkby Lars von Trier…