Danish director Martin Zandvliet brilliantly
explores a
little - known episode in 1945 when more than 2,000 German POWs were forced to clear almost two million land mines that had been buried on the beaches of the west coast of Denmark in anticipation...
Those two events are a vehicle for von Trier to
explore both emotional and spiritual crisis while also proffering a pitch - black worldview with regard to God and life's meaning, concerns that feature
little of the overt glibness that plagued Antichrist, whose provocations and stylistic tics regularly undercut its psycho - horror, but remain issues that the
Danish director treats at a frustrating remove.