For those who are not familiar with the Dogme movement, please refer to the Manifesto of the official DOGME 95 website. According to their Vow of Chastity, all Dogme films should stick to the following rules:
1. Shooting must be done on location
2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa.
3. The camera must be hand-held.
4. The film must be in colour.
5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.
6. The film must not contain superficial action (murders, weapons, etc.).
7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden.
8. Genre movies are not acceptable.
9. The film format must be Academy 35 mm.
10. The director must not be credited.
And finally, "Furthermore I swear as a director to refrain from personal taste! I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a "work", as I regard the instant as more important than the whole. My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings. I swear to do so by all the means available and at the cost of any good taste and any aesthetic considerations."
Frankly, some of these rules are technical and trivial (IMHO), while some others are just plain silly - that the director should not be credited and that he/she should refrain from personal taste!
Turning to the film itself (Susanne Bier is the director by the way), it is about a young engaged couple being torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the doctor in the hospital, who is the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
Dogme or not, is there any justification for the excessively dramatic story line? Can't she, for example, just fall in love with a doctor in the hospital? Isn't that dramatic enough?
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