Manderlay
Directed by	Lars von Trier
Produced by	Gillian Berrie, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Signe Jensen, Els Vandevorst and Vibeke Windeløv
Written by	Lars von Trier
Starring	Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe
Release date(s)	May 16, 2005 (Premiere)
Running time	139 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Dogville
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For the fictional estate, see Manderley; for the Burmese city, see Mandalay.

Manderlay is a sequel to the movie Dogville. It is the second part of Lars von Trier's trilogy USA - Land of Opportunities. Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace. The movie also features Willem Dafoe, Lauren Bacall and Chloe Sevigny. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x656, 84 KB) This is a copyrighted poster. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress most widely known for her roles in the M. Night Shymalan-directed films The Village and Lady in the Water. ... William Dafoe, Jr. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (137th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... Manderley is the house that plays a central part in Daphne du Mauriers novel, Rebecca. ... Mandalay (Burmese: ) is the second largest city in Myanmar (formerly Burma) with a population of 927,000 (2005 census), agglomeration 2,5 million. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... USA - Land of Opportunities is a trilogy of films by the Danish director Lars von Trier detailing a womans encounters with American life in the 1930s. ... Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress most widely known for her roles in the M. Night Shymalan-directed films The Village and Lady in the Water. ... Nicole Mary Kidman AC (born June 20, 1967) is an Australian[2][3] Academy Award-winning film actress and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. ... William Dafoe, Jr. ... Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress. ... Chlo Sevigny (born November 18, 1974) is an American actress and model. ...

Staging

The staging is very similar to Dogville. Shot on a sparsely dressed sound stage, Manderlay's mise en scene differs from its predecessor with the inclusion of horse, a mule, and a sandstorm. Like Dogville, Manderlay's action is confined to a small geographic area, in this case a plantation. Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård and James Caan, among others. ... A sound stage is a hangar-like structure, building or room, that is soundproof for the production of theatrical motion pictures and television, usually inside a movie studio. ... In film theory, mise-en-sc ne [mizA~sEn] refers to everything that is to appear before the camera and its arrangement -- sets, props, actors, costumes, camera movements and performances. ...

Plot summary

Set in the early 1930s, the film takes up the story of Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) after burning the town of Dogville at the end of the previous film. Grace and her father travel in convoy with a number of gunmen through rural Alabama where they stop briefly outside a plantation called Manderlay. As the gangsters converse, a black woman emerges from Manderlay's front gates complaining that someone is about to be whipped for stealing a bottle of wine. Grace enters the plantation and learns that within it, slavery persists, roughly 70 years after the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Grace is appalled, and insists on staying at the plantation with a small contingent of gunmen and her father's lawyer, Joseph, in order to guarantee the slaves' safe transition to freedom. Shortly after Grace's father and the remaining gangsters depart, Mam (Lauren Bacall), the master of the house, dies, but not before asking Grace to burn a notebook containing "Mam's Law," an exhaustive code of conduct for the entire plantation and all its inhabitants, free and slave. She reads the descriptions of each variety of slave that can be encountered, which include: Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress most widely known for her roles in the M. Night Shymalan-directed films The Village and Lady in the Water. ... William Dafoe, Jr. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... Slave redirects here. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Leland-Boker Authorized Edition, printed in June 1864 with a presidential signature The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order in 1863 by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, which declared the freedom of all slaves in those areas of the rebellious Confederate States of America that... Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress. ...

• Group 1: Proudy Nigger
• Group 2: Talkin' Nigger
• Group 3: Weepin' Nigger
• Group 4: Hittin' Nigger
• Group 5: Clownin' Nigger
• Group 7: Pleasing Nigger (also known as a chameleon, a person of the kind who can transform himself into exactly the type beholder would like to see)

The principal seven divisions are each populated by a single adult slave at Manderlay, who congregate daily and converse on a "parade ground," with roman numerals of the numbers 1 through 7 designating where each slave stands. "Mam's Law" contains further provisions against the use of cash by slaves, or the felling of trees on the property for timber. // Nigger is a racial slur used to refer to dark-skinned people, especially those of African ancestry. ... Genera Bradypodion Calumma Chamaeleo Furcifer Kinyongia Nadzikambia Brookesia Rieppeleon Rhampholeon Chameleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are squamates that belong to one of the best-known lizard families. ...

All of this information disgusts Grace, and inspires her to take charge of the plantation in order to punish the slave owners and prepare the slaves for life as free individuals. In order to guarantee that the former slaves will not continue to be exploited as sharecroppers, Grace orders Joseph to draw up contracts for all Manderlay's inhabitants, institutionalizing a communistic form of cooperative living in which the white family works as slaves and the blacks collectively own the plantation and its crops. Throughout this process, Grace lectures all those present about the notions of freedom and democracy, using rhetoric entirely in keeping with the ideology of racial equality which most contemporary Americans had yet to embrace. However as the film progresses, Grace fails to embed these principles in Manderlay's community in a form she considers satisfactory. Furthermore, her suggestions for improving the conditions of the community backfire on several occasions, such as using the surrounding trees for timber, which leaves the crops vulnerable to dust storms. After a year of such tribulations, the community harvests its cotton and successfully sells it, only to have the proceeds stolen by one of the former slaves. At this point it is revealed that "Mam's Law" was not conceived and enforced by Mam or any of the other whites, but instead by Wilhelm (Danny Glover), the community's eldest member, as a means of maintaining the status quo after the abolition of slavery, protecting the blacks from a hostile outside world. As in many von Trier films, the idealistic main character becomes frustrated by the reality he or she encounters. Sharecropping is a system of farming in which employee farmers work a parcel of land in return for a fraction of the parcels crops. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Daniel Lebern Glover (b. ... In philosophy, idealism is any theory positing the primacy of spirit, mind, or language over matter. ...

Cast

• Bryce Dallas Howard - Grace
• Willem Dafoe - Grace's father
• Danny Glover - Wilhelm
• Isaach de Bankolé - Timothy
• Lauren Bacall - Mam
• Michäel Abiteboul - Thomas
• Jean Marc Barr - Mr. Robinson
• Geoffrey Bateman - Bertie
• Virgile Bramly - Edward
• Ruben Brinkman - Bingo
• Doña Croll - Venus
• Jeremy Davies - Niels
• Llewella Gideon - Victoria
• Mona Hammond - Old Wilma
• Ginny Holder - Elizabeth
• Emmanuel Idowu - Jim
• Zeljko Ivanek - Dr. Hector
• Teddy Kempner - Joseph
• Rik Launspach - Stanley Mays
• Suzette Llewellyn - Flora
• Udo Kier - Mr. Kirspe
• Charles Maquignon - Bruno
• Joseph Mydell - Mark
• Javone Prince - Jack
• Clive Rowe - Sammy
• Chloë Sevigny - Philomena
• Nina Sosanya - Rose

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External links

• Official website
• Manderlay at the Internet Movie Database
• Manderlay at Rotten Tomatoes
• Manderlay: the danger of do-gooding — Philip Cunliffe on the “ruthless attack on meddlesome liberalism”
• A review from brightlightsfilm.com