Five Obstructions Review

Todd over at Twitch has a review up of Lars Von Trier's The Five Obstructions:

The film opens with Leth and Von Trier seated in Von Trier's Copenhagen offices discussing what lies ahead. Von Trier is about to do his best to break Leth's spirit; he will take a man who he considers a mentor and have him remake his own short film - a film Von Trier claims to have seen over twenty times - according to a set of arbitrary rules chosen purely to make life difficult for the elder film maker, to force him away from his normal methods and techniques. Von Trier plays the part of a capricious god, dangling morsels in front of Leth only to yank them away with an impish grin the moment Leth shows any interest or desire for them. By the time the duo is done Leth will have finished with five utterly different re-interpretations of his own work.

The details of the five obstructions (which I suppose could be construed as spoilers, so be forewarned) and the results make this perhaps my most anticipated Von Trier movie ever (in the interest of full disclosure, I'm one of the few that are ambivalent towards LVT, and don't know if I've ever "eagerly awaited" one of his movies before).