This is the kind of movie that sends 90% of the audience looking for the exits (or the "Eject" button on their VHS/DVD players), while the remaining 10% claims it's a "masterpiece". Very demanding, very suffocating, very pretentious. By making a film whose extreme ambitions are matched only by the boredom it induces, Von Trier proves to be a worthy successor to Tarkovsky (and that's not a compliment). Of course in Tarkovsky you would never get a line like "I'll sc*ew you to the Stone Age!". (*1/2)
Review of The Element of Crime
