Manderlay

Snail-pacing and longwinded dialogue mar this somber Lars von Trier 2005 sequel to Dogville, which is filmed like a stage play, in which a young woman (Byrce Dallas Howard) discovers a cotton plantation while driving through Louisiana in 1933 with her bigoted father (Willem Dafoe) and after the death of the plantation matriarch (Lauren Bacall), she decides to help the Negroes (Danny Glover, Isaach de Bankolé, et al.) who are still enslaved on the plantation 70 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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