Mixing pitch black humor, transcendent surrealism, and renegade musings on everything from history to architecture to cinema, von Trier fashions a radical, blazingly personal inquiry into violence, art, and the twin acts of creation and destruction. With Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, and Bruno Ganz.

Trier made many films about good women (“Breaking the waves”, “Dancing in the dark”). This time he decided to talk about the bad man, reaching for the motifs of Francis Bacon’s paintings, William Blake’s poetry and the music of the outstanding pianist Glenn Gould. Through the form of the dark aesthetist, Lars von Trier mocks social hypocrisy and exposes the mechanisms of political correctness. “The house that Jack built” is a provocative, bold, full of visual ideas cinema seeking answers to the question about the nature of good and evil.