Me Me Lai

A fascination with the extreme is written across all of Lars von Trier’s works, beginning with this mesmeric investigation of criminal minds. Captured in burnt sepia tones expressive of photographic fragments or uncertain memories, the ashen film is also evocative of a changing—crumbling?—Europe.

Cannibals and sexual brutality are just some of the terrifying mayhem happening in this shocking story about a flesh-eating cult deep in the jungle.