THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (2003)

Cast

Plot

A humorous, twisted philosophical dialogue between Lars Van Trier and Jorgen Leth, the former daring the legendary renaissance man and director, producer, novelist, poet and television commentator to remake his own seminal 1967 short documentary 'The Perfect Human', a cocktail-chic, tongue-in-cheek meditation on human behaviour that Von Trier greatly admires. It's a challenge with a difference, for Leth has to re-produce the film five times, each under fiendish conditions imposed by the frankly sadistic, megalomaniac that is Von Trier. Painful genius.