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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like von Trier’s film, this is an uncomfortably intimate immersion in a killer’s warped perspective, using rigorous visual control and cold, escalating tension rather than conventional crime-thriller distance.
02
Why this pick
A grim, grotesquely observational portrait of a serial murderer, matched to The House That Jack Built through its deliberately abrasive tone, bleak humour, and refusal to make its central figure glamorous.
03
Why this pick
A stark, unsensational serial-killer study that shares von Trier’s interest in moral vacancy, viewer discomfort, and the banal textures surrounding extreme violence.
04
Why this pick
This elegant, macabre descent into self-justifying madness echoes Jack’s cultivated monologues and artistic rationalisations, while combining horror with grotesque satire and precise, stylised imagery.
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Why this pick
For the same prolonged sense of contamination and psychological cruelty: it observes violence through an oppressive, methodical realism, centring coercive charisma rather than cathartic thriller mechanics.
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01 / THE STORY
The story follows Jack, a serial killer with some artistic disposition, over the course of twelve years and depicts the murders that develop Jack as a serial killer. Throughout the film he has side conversations with Verge in between the depictions of the incidents, most of which revolve around discussion of philosophy, ethics or Jack's view of the world.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jack
Verge
Lady #1
Lady #2
Lady #3
Simple
Al
Sonny
