Lars von Trier

What makes a Lars von Trier film a Lars von Trier film

Across 14 films, they run far more strangeness, much more ambiguity and much less hope than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 14 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.