The Five Obstructions

2003 [DANISH]

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 60 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 9499 9.5K

Plot summary

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.

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Lars von Trier as Self / Obstructor
Alexandra Vandernoot as The Perfect Woman
Anders Hove as Naked Man
Patrick Bauchau as The Perfect Man / Voice-over
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Reviewed by Chris Knipp

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Reviewed by Zeltaebar 8 / 10

Original, amusing and entertaining

This documentary was a pleasant surprise. I saw the original short movie "The Perfect Human" before viewing this, which is about re-making "The Perfect Human" under different and more difficult circumstances (the five obstacles), and I recommend others to do the same. To truly enjoy this movie you should have some interest for art movies and movie-making in general. It is amusing to see the frustrations of the movie-maker in question, Jørgen Leth, as he is ordered to cripple his original "masterpiece". The movie shows how creativity and imagination is stimulated under the right circumstances. I felt inspired after viewing this movie and actually made my own version of the short movie together with some friends (still not cut, but it will probably be awful). All in all, interesting and fun but sometimes it gets me thinking that some of the chunks between the short movies should have been cut out.

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