Manderlay

:You might be looking for Manderley, a fictional estate; or Mandalay, a Burmese city.

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Manderlay is a sequel to the movie Dogville. It is the second part of Lars Von Trier's trilogy USA - Land of Opportunities. Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace. The movie also features Willem Dafoe and Lauren Bacall (among others) in supporting roles.

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The film starts out with Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) passing by a plantation named Manderlay. Although at the time slavery was abolished 70 years ago, apparently slavery is still taking place at the plantation: the slave Timothy (Isaach De Bankol?) is being punished by Mam (Lauren Bacall) who runs the plantation by Mam's law. Mam, weak and exhausted from preventing Grace's interference, dies under the eyes of Grace. Grace decides to stay at the plantation to set the slaves free and run the cotton plantation for one year, assisted by a lawyer and gangsters she was assigned by her father. What follows is the difficulties the plantation encounters.

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As in other movies from Lars von Trier, the Grace character is trying to do good, but her choices inherently have negative consequences as well. She decides, for example, to cut down trees from the garden; this allows a dust storm to destroy a part of the harvest since the hedge is gone.

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Manderley: Manderley is the house that plays a central part in Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca. No location is specified for the house, but it is assumed to be in Cornwall, where du Maurier herself lived. The original "Manderley" is a large house, the property of millionaire Max de Winter. It has numerou...

Mandalay: Mandalay (Burmese: ) is the second largest city (2000 pop. est. 801,707) and former royal capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma), and capital of the current Mandalay Division. The city is bordered by the Ayeyarwady River and is located at , 716 km north of Yangon. It is in the center of Myanmar's dry ...

Dogville: Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman and Paul Bettany. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal set to tell the story of Grace (Kidman), a fugitive from mobsters, who arrives in the small town of Dogville and is provided refuge in return for p...