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Cannes film festival: Can Lars von Trier be having a laugh at us?
(From Guardian Unlimited)
Lars von Trier is the best director in the world. How do we know? Because he told us so. "I am the best director in the world," he declared to the world's press today.
This admittedly did not go down too well with some journalists who had clearly been left bewildered and angry after watching his new horror movie Antichrist at the Cannes film festival. Here is a film that wants to be watched behind splayed fingers .
The Daily Mail demanded -- rather testily -- that he explained myself. "I don't have to justify myself," Von Trier replied. "I make films and I enjoy very much making them. You are all my guests, it's not the other way …
