Review of The House That Jack Built (2018) by Jluis_001 — 26 Dec 2018

I love Lars Von Trier. He's one of my favorite filmmakers and he's actually the third one in my top ten. But unfortunately this film didn't left me really satisfied.

At first it promised to be great, but it never manages to be on par with its ambition and strangely coming from Von Trier, it feels somewhat empty and disarticulated.

Also I have to mention that is quite evident that Von Trier is beginning to show certain shortcomings in his narrative discourse. I say this because he's starting to repeat himself and that's not a good thing. It's still a minor issue but it's certainly notorious.

I canot say anything negative about Matt Dillon's wonderful work as Jack. Undoubtedly one of the best roles of his career, if not the best. He leads the films entirely and holds it together at all times.

I give this film an extra half a star because of its wonderful epilogue that undoubtedly changes the whole focus of the film and gives it a somewhat unsatisfactory but pretty good ending and that undoubtedly revitalizes the film in general.