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So what did you do after Dogme, Daddy? While Lars Von Trier has kept the faith - (kind of) - with the grimly austere Dogville, Festen helmer Thomas Vinterberg has resolutely turned his back on the Dogme 95 manifesto. It's All About Love creates a lush romantic fantasy that revels in exactly the kind of cinematic artifice his fellow Danes sought to eradicate. The result may be baffling, pretentious and mawkish, but it's still a vivid, imaginative work that will captivate and infuriate audiences in equal measure.
""I want to tell you a story about the last seven days of my life"," says Joaquin Phoenix's Polish hero John in an opening voiceover that sets the tone for the dreamlike saga that follows. The year is 2012 and the world is being rocked by a series of apocalyptic disasters: sudden freezes, gravity loss in Africa and an unexplained heart ailment that leaves the sidewalks of Manhattan littered with cadavers.
It's all about - what? Your guess is as good as ours. But surrender to its oddness and this poetic epic will be hard to forget.
