The fourth Danish Dogme film offers a fine summation of the movement's
themes and techniques. It's about a group of tourists who get lost in the
Namibian desert, and resort to acting out Shakespeare's King Lear to
keep their spirits up while awaiting rescue/death. Levring's
unflinching hand-held cameras plunge into the heart of the action,
penetrating the characters' social masks to reveal, in the words of
Lear, a "poor, bare, forked animal". The result is a bleak,
black comedy, not a million miles from the previous Dogme films.
