The Five Obstructions

2003 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 9,419 VOTES · DIR. Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline - 810 lines

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00:00:22 What i was thinking...
00:03:20 So the film must be shot in cuba. Obviously.
00:06:27 I'm dan. The photographer.
00:09:04 I can't wait to show it to you, i must say.
00:12:17 Here is the perfect human.
00:14:56 I don't know -
00:17:43 - It's not merely a pose. - Not at all.
00:20:47 - that i hope to understand in a few days.
00:25:27 A scene i wrote for him but which he completely improvised.
00:29:03 The transparent screen we stretched out -
00:34:54 - that i hope to understand in a few days.
00:37:34 "Yet another suicidal situation!"
00:39:59 - With me again, for example. - Maybe.
00:43:58 What is the perfect human like to touch?
00:49:02 She leaves the frame. Repeated several times. We've shot that.
00:55:48 They may have hurt, but you're unmarked.
00:58:21 I'm going to make a very, very, very simple rule for the next film.
01:01:17 - but it mustn't look as if it's been recycled or repeated.
01:06:51 Here there are no limits. Here there is nothing.
01:13:26 - will be that you do nothing at all -
01:16:14 You look happier and happier...
01:18:55 "Jorgen is a wretch, just like me."
01:21:23 Dear lars, thank you for your obstructions.
02:00:00 Just make it.

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Dialogue Record

Lines indexed810
Dialogue density9.0 lines / min
First line00:00:22
Final line02:00:00

Production Record

DirectorLars von Trier, Jørgen Leth
LanguageDanish
IMDb votes9,419