Top cast:Vincent Cassel,Diane Kruger,Guy Pearce
Director:Peter Weir
Genre:Romance
Region:Norway
Year:2002
Storyline:At first as he climbs the stone staircase, he believes he deteriorating, rotting mausoleum-like estate belongs to a long bygone era [a symbol of Hollywood's own decaying state], and is deserted because of its unkempt condition.Who needs God? Well, if there's anybody out there hat can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bulls--t.He was retaliating for the way he was treated as a child (earlier, he had said: "I was my parents' number one son, but they treated me like number two").W.Griffith in its style (the use of stark, expressionistic black and white cinematography, archaic camera devices such as iris down) and in its casting of Griffith's principal protegé/silent star, the legendary Lillian Gish (in her first film sincePortrait of Jennie (1948)).Universal was so unimpressed with the film that it was double-billed in movie theatres as the second B-movie film when first released, following the main featureThe Female Animal (1958).