These days the production company Zentropa has released seven provocative character posters of The House that Jack Built, a brutal film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released in Italy thanks to Videa.
Written and directed by Denmark's Lars Von Trier, The House That Jack Built stars Matt Dillon, here playing the role of a heinous serial killer (a figure inspired by "Jack the Ripper") and sheds light on five murders he carried out.
Plot: United States, 1970. Jack (Matt Dillon) is an engineer who is under the spell of death after killing a woman he rescued on the street. The event will lead the man to commit more murders in order to achieve perfection by collecting more macabre "works of art." The goal is to achieve his greatest masterpiece that is, a collection of all his murders inside a house he himself built.
The cast includes Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Riley Keough, Ed Speleers (Howl, Love Bite), Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Bruno Ganz, Sofie Gråbøl, David Bailie and Ji-tae Yu. The film's story is by Jenle Hallund.
The House That Jack Built is a co-production between Germany, France, Sweden and Denmark.
The film is produced by Lars Von Trier's Zentropa Entertainments in collaboration with Copenhagen Film Fund and will be released in Denmark on November 29, 2018 while it will arrive in Italy in the fall thanks to Videa.
The seven character posters:
