COPENHAGEN, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Danish director Lars von Trier, 66, has been recognized with Parkinson’s illness and can do restricted promotion for his upcoming supernatural TV collection “Kingdom Exodus”, his manufacturing firm stated on Monday.
Von Trier, sometimes called the “enfant horrible” of latest cinema, was in “good spirits” and is being handled for his signs, Zentropa stated in an announcement.
The “Kingdom Exodus” is the third and last instalment in von Trier’s Nineties cult TV present “The Kingdom”.The collection premieres on the Venice Movie Pageant later this month as a five-hour movie. It will likely be launched in 5 episodes on Viaplay’s platform and Danish broadcaster DR later this 12 months.
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“The sickness implies that Lars will solely participate in interviews to a restricted extent till the premiere later this 12 months,” Zentropa stated.
In 2011, von Trier was banned from the Cannes Movie Pageant after he joked he was a Nazi at a information convention to advertise his movie “Melancholia,” an uncommon catastrophe film starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
His different works embrace sexually graphic movies corresponding to “Antichrist” and “Nymphomaniac”, and the harrowing melodrama “Dancer within the Darkish”, starring Icelandic singer Bjork, for which he received the Golden Palm for finest film at Cannes in 2000.
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Reporting by Stine Jacobsen; Enhancing by Richard Chang
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