“Lars is in good condition and is being treated for his symptoms,” Zentropa said in a statement.
The Danish director Lars von Trier offended by parkinson’s disease, his production company announced today Monday.
“Lars is in good condition and is being treated for his symptoms,” Zentropa said in a statement.
Founder of “Doctrine”, a film movement that advocates a cinema in direct contact with reality, the 66-year-old Dane is expected to present “The Kingdom Exodus”, the third film in the “Riget” series as it is in Danish, and is about ” the hospital and its ghosts” whose projection in theaters is planned until the end of the year in the Scandinavian kingdom.
The production company clarified that the director will finish this new cycle “as planned”.
A heavy name in Danish cinema, Trier is a controversial figure known for provocative films and a violence that is sometimes unbearable.
He has mainly directed the films “Melancholia”, “Nymphomaniac” and “The House That Jack Built”, while he was awarded the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2000 for his film “Dancer in the Dark”.
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, associated with the dysfunction or loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain, the lack of dopamine, and the formation of pathological particles-proteins, Lewy Bodies, in neurons. It is an idiopathic disease of the nervous system, characterized by motor and non-motor manifestations. The disease has been described as early as 1817, by James Parkinson.
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