The works of one of world cinema’s most renowned and daring provocateurs, Lars von Trier, will be making a comeback to the big screen this summer with a new retrospective entitled Enduring Provocations. Enduring Provocations looks back on his controversial career, having courted ardent fans and enemies in equal measure during his nearly four decades as a director. Known for his restless technical innovation and rebellious approach to the genre, von Trier has confronted the taboo subjects of the day and the eternal existential problems of the human condition with the same thorny, troubled intelligence and puckish humour. Enduring Provocations will allow audiences across the UK to revisit some of the director’s most incendiary works on the big screen, many of them remastered. The season asks whether his cinema of narcissism and self-abasement still has the power to get under our skin. Is it the on-screen violence that is hard to stomach, or those troubling questions his films ask about human suffering, morality and the disorders of society? The retrospective will launch in select cinemas on 4 August with the newly remastered Breaking the Waves in 4K.
ABOUT CURZON FILM:
Curzon Film is the film distribution label of Curzon with a strong legacy of releasing and connecting critically acclaimed films to audiences across the U.K..
Curzon film was born in 1976 with the creation of Artificial Eye film releasing – a renowned film label widely recognised for being the leading distributor for international cinema, and introducing some of the greatest film directors of all time to discerning U.K. audiences including Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Andrei Tarkovsky and Abbas Kiarostami amongst others.
In 2006, Artificial Eye became part of Curzon. Curzon Film has released more Cannes PALME d’Or winners than any other UK distributor and is the recipient of multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history in 2020 by becoming the U.K.’s highest grossing foreign language film of all time. In 2017, Curzon received a BAFTA in recognition of its Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema.
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