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Director Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
- Thread starter DinkyDev
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As with the poster above, my dad also has Parkinson's and has progressed / deteriorated to the point of being in a care home with Parkinson's dementia only four years after diagnosis.
It's an awful awful disease - best wishes and fingers crossed for responsive support to any receiving this diagnosis, including the director in the OP.
It's an awful awful disease - best wishes and fingers crossed for responsive support to any receiving this diagnosis, including the director in the OP.
He has seemed like he was in bad health for a while, but still, very sorry to hear that. Even when I didn't love his work, it's always been at least interesting in some way.
Like previous posters, his work is among my favorites despite my misgivings about the man himself. Still, not the kind of exit I wanted for him.
In case anyone is curious, here's a portion of Bjork's statement on Von Trier's sexual harassment of her, from the "controversy" subheading on the Dancer in the Dark Wikipedia page:
1 after each take the director ran up to me and wrapped his arms around me for a long time in front of all crew or alone and stroked me sometimes for minutes against my wishes
2 when after 2 months of this i said he had to stop the touching , he exploded and broke a chair in front of everyone on set . like someone who has always been allowed to fondle his actresses . then we all got sent home .
3 during the whole filming process there were constant awkward paralysing unwanted whispered sexual offers from him with graphic descriptions , sometimes with his wife standing next to us .
4 while filming in sweden , he threatened to climb from his room´s balcony over to mine in the middle of the night with a clear sexual intention , while his wife was in the room next door . i escaped to my friends room . this was what finally woke me up to the severity of all this and made me stand my ground
5 fabricated stories in the press about me being difficult by his producer . this matches beautifully the weinstein methods and bullying . i have never eaten a shirt . not sure that is even possible .
6 i didnt comply or agree on being sexually harassed . that was then portrayed as me being difficult . if being difficult is standing up to being treated like that , i´ll own it
And here's her manager's statement:
I have worked with Björk for over 30 years and have never made a single statement or interview regarding our work together. This time is different.
I have read the lies written by Lars and his producer Peter about Björk – and feel compelled to speak out and put the record straight. Over the last 30 years, the Dancer in the Dark project is the one and only time she has fallen out with a collaborator.
This was a result of the directors ongoing, disrespectful verbal and physical abuse which continued after both Björk and myself demanded that he stop behaving this way. Björk completed the film out of respect for the cast and everyone involved. I feel compelled to publicly speak out in fierce support of Björk in regards to her terrible experiences working with Lars Von Trier, and I back what she has said 110%.
Dancer in the Dark - Wikipedia
Not to mention the fact that so many actresses have said that Von Trier treated them in sadistically cruel ways, I think it's reasonable to bring it up, even though Von Trier's disease is the main subject of the thread.
My dad was diagnosed with Parkinson's maybe 15 years ago and he's been slowly deteriorating since then. Now he's in a care facility now, unable to talk well and walk at all. He's getting pretty close to the end… I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Sad way to go.