The Idiots

1998 [DANISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 72% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 35243 35.2K

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Plot summary

A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.

Director

Lars von Trier Photo
Lars von Trier

Top cast

Lars von Trier Photo
Lars von Trier as Interviewer
Nikolaj Lie Kaas Photo
Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Jeppe
Anders Hove Photo
Anders Hove as Josephine's Father
Lone Lindorff Photo
Lone Lindorff as Karen's Mother
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1006.6 MB
968*720
Danish 2.0
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Subtitles us  dk  sv  fi  
25 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 8
1.82 GB
1440*1072
Danish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  dk  sv  fi  
25 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 33

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 7 / 10

Successful experiment.

"Idioterne" is a good and enjoyable to watch Dogma movie. The style (or better said; the lack of style) and storytelling are unique and help to make "Idioterne" a one of a kind movie experience. Just like the story in the movie; it's a successful experiment.As a sort of a social experiment, a group of people decides to release the 'idiot' in themselves to see how the environments responds to them. Sounds like good enough material to make a hilarious comedy with but "Idioterne" never goes over-the-top and always retains a sort of realistic feeling. The movie is made in documentary style with some mixed results as a direct result of this. For most part the movie is realistic and it has an improvised feeling over it but some of the sequences are obviously planned and acted out. In those sequences it becomes painfully obvious that the actors in this movie aren't really first-rate. It makes those sequence feel forced and ridiculous. Those sequences are in contrast with the rest of the movie its style and overall feeling.Yet the movie remains perfectly good to watch. It never becomes really great or hilarious but the movie is simply perfectly entertaining to watch nevertheless.The movie has some interesting sequences and confrontations in it that all helps to make this movie quite a memorable one. It's a movie that confronts at times and makes us as viewers think about how we would respond and act if we were in one of the situations as portrayed in the movie.For fans of Dogma this is an absolute must-see. It has everything in it what makes Dogma movies so great. It's perhaps not the best Dogma movie but it certainly is one of the most enjoyable- and more light to watch ones.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
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Reviewed by crisberg 6 / 10

Mediocre film, childish manifesto

What can you expect from a film based on a childish manifesto like Dogma 95? Bad lighting, bad acting (with a couple of notable exceptions) and a feeling that some of the scenes (like the orgy) were introduced only to prove that the Dogma was being obeyed...

The story itself (a group of people pretending to be mentally retarded and interacting with the "normal" world, with each other and with themselves) is sometimes intriguing and certainly will not leave any spectator undisturbed, but it is not enough to make this piece remarkable.

Only to be seen as a curiosity...

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