USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal ... (Full plot summary below)
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USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. The House That Jack Built is a dark and sinister story, yet presented through a philosophical and occasional humorous tale.
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| Slant MagazineSam C. MacThe film becomes an even broader consideration of individual fascinations and follies, of ways of responding to art without the boundaries of morality and reason. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineCarlos F. HerederoBut it is clear that the Dane cannot be content to make a mere thriller (say, a kind of Henry, a portrait of a murderer), because his ambitions, as usual, aim much higher. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Letras LibresFernanda SolórzanoThis is a very dark comedy and one with great moments of horror. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| Birth.Movies.Death.Emily SearsIt may be the blackest pitch of pitch-black comedies, but to take it too seriously would be an oversight. |
| Film ThreatLorry KiktaSome people, including a couple of people I watched the film with, may see The House That Jack Built as pretentious nonsense. Others will see it as the glorification of violence. I see it for what it was intended to be, a work of complicated, violent, hilarious art. |
| The Movie SleuthMichelle KisnerThe House That Jack Built is messy and imperfect at times and breathtaking and gorgeous at others. If that isn't an accurate representation of what it is to be a human, I don't know what is. |
| GuardianElena LazicWith The House That Jack Built, Von Trier has tapped into the fact that what makes serial murder a valid focus for a film is precisely the unsettling extremity and incomprehensible character of it. |
| Daily Mail (UK)Brian VinerOne of the most gratuitously nasty, offensive movies it has ever been my misfortune to endure. |
| Caimán Cuadernos de CineÀngel QuintanaVon Trier films the horror, the vexation, the destruction, with sadism, but also with the desire to articulate a kind of critical distancing that allows the viewer to reflect on the relationship between crime and art... [Full review in Spanish] |
| MUBILawrence GarciaNo mere exercise in sadism (or masochism), The House That Jack Built is an anguished attempt to stare into the pits of hell. |
