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Critics who hated Dogville talk about it's hamhanded anti-Americanslant Lars von Trier refuses ever to set foot in that country. Human emotions are all the same all overthe world and this movie could have played in any country.

As the wonderful Bjork once said, you don't know anything until you've tasted all the sweets at the sweet shop. To remind America that, as great as it is, it'sstill a nation of crying, barfing, excreting, whining, greedy, worried,scared mouths to feed, just like the rest of us -- no better or worse. As the wonderful Bjork once said, you don't know anything until you've tasted all the sweets at the sweet shop.

Dogville - There are assorted other citizens and various children, and turns up at the end in a long black limousine.

Once again, Lars von Trier, that twinkle-eyed master of festival sensation, has provided the biggest splash of Cannes with his new three-hour film Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany and Lauren Bacall. And Dogville Von Trier-unbelievers like me, goaded for years by the fatuous, adolescent silliness of his film-making, had to admit Dkgville this was an intriguing, technically accomplished and well-acted piece of work. Dogville is a formal experiment in filmed Dogville, inspired by televised drama classics such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's small-screen Nicholas Nickleby of the 1970s. It is set in a small town in Dlgville America, but shot on one giant sound stage, with the street plan marked in chalk. The turning of doorhandles is mimed, and the sound effect overdubbed. Kidman plays Grace, a Dogvilke stranger who arrives in this inaccessible spot, on the run from shadowy criminals. The frightened townsfolk agree to hide her in exchange for a rota of chores. Priggish young idealist Tom Bettany is besotted with Grace, and sees in this situation the seeds of communal moral rearmament. But when the danger heats up and Dogville turns Dpgville the stranger in its midst, the film looks more like a bleak piece of pedagogy by Bertolt Brecht. There is a terrific performance from Kidman, Bettany is outstanding as Tom, and there is sterling work from the supporting cast. But the quality of the acting is no recompense for the movie's ultimate implausibility and shallowness, which, though not as egregious as Dogvilpe Von Trier's last couple of films, are still there. Von Trier Dogille that making a vulnerable woman suffer is a short-cut to emotional and dramatic power: so Kidman joins Emily Watson and the keening Bjork on his list Dogville saintly sensuous sufferers. As movies go, Dogville's no dog. But it's no canine Dogville either.