The House That Jack Built's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
'The House That Jack Built' is an often-horrifying, sadistic dive into a psychotic internal monologue, with intellectual detours about the nature of art in the world today, and puts considerable effort into stimulating discomfort at key moments. If you meet the work on those terms, or at least accept the challenge of wrestling with impeccable filmmaking that dances across moral barriers, it?s also possibly brilliant.
El Mundo
Grandiose, ridiculous, pornographic, at times cruelly boring, scurrilous, obscene, brutal, politically incorrect until the offense, perhaps immoral immoral... and, however, fascinating in its total absence of prejudices [...] Maybe masterly and, in any of the cases, unique.
Fotogramas
The film works, in the first instance, as a black comedy (if Patrick Bateman was a parody, Jack is the parody of the parody), but it is above all an immeasurable essay on the art and the own cinematographic world of its creator [.. .] Lars von Trier is a sunken, twisted and tormented guy, who conceives art from the depths of hell.
ABC
A brilliant and sadistic film [...] Very long, endless, visually dazzling and demonic and narratively crazy.
El Periódico
What can 'The House That Jack Built' offer to immunized spectators by the Danish provocations? A handful of genuinely provocative ideas scattered throughout an incredibly exaggerated footage [...] The black humor that surrounds all of it seems like the mechanism used by the director to keep a reasonable distance from the abyss, which is just where despite this, the last scenes of this grotesque self-portrait literally take place.
The Guardian
It is an ordeal of gruesomeness and tiresomeness that was every bit as exasperating as I had feared [...] But afterwards it doesn?t stay in your mind, other than to make you shake your head at its distinctive humourless silliness.
El País
The speech of the psychopath is unbearable[...] Everything seems sick, gratuitous and burdensome. Of course, even if he hide his signature, we would recognize the author. His world is always recognizable.