Reviews for The Five Obstructions

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6.9 / 10 1h 30min

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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Review by user968hr8rrdjr

Original, amusing and entertaining

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Review by CosmicCamel

Eat your heart out "reality" television!

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Review by AquaStar

Quintuple the Pleasure, Quintuple the Fun!

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Review by user4006940a3iu

Film as Therapy, Film as Challenge, Film by Committee - that one being Lars von Trier

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Review by RainbowRoadrunner

A film about a filmmaker asking his idol to remake a film from 1967 in five different ways.

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Review by MysticMermaid

Danish director Jørgen Leth accepts Lars Von Trier's five challenges without much trouble.

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Review by user3568u7l6obz

The Five Obstruction - introspection and reflexivity

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Review by user862pzzodnu3

Sensitive and playful paean to Jørgen Leth

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Review by ShadowyScallop

Consumer alert! The Surgeon General has deemed this film hazardous to your health: it can cause life threatening boredom

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Review by SonicSquid

Not much to interest the average viewer

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Review by user8681hdnx1hs

a blinding x-ray of artistic endeavour

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Review by user414h0aant4u

must-see for all movie connoisseurs

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Review by ElectricEagle

This is how the perfect human falls

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Review by NighttimeNightjar

A Witty Premise That Grows Clouded by Over-Analysis and Self-Absorption

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Review by user559hp0zn518

A self-examining work of art that is greater than its constituent parts

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Review by AuroraArcher

Creative but mostly unnecessary

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