Playing the Fool

Name: Playing the Fool
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-08-19

N/A(0)

24m

2000

Released

en

Documentary

Overview

Documentary following the controversy of the 1988 film THE IDIOTS, which showed a group of middle class people pretending to be mentally impaired. Disabled people confront film director Lars von Trier about his view that anything can be shown in film, arguing that it reinforces negative stereotypes of the disabled.

Release Date

August 19, 2000

Production

Dual Purpose Production

Watch Now

Share

Cast

3 people

Lars von Trier

Self

Directing

Jamie Beddard

Self

Acting

Paul Darke

Self

Acting

Reviews & Ratings

(5)

4.6

5 community reviews

5★

3

4★

2

3★

0

2★

0

1★

0

Sign in to leave a review

Playing the Fool

Overview

Release Date

Production

Watch Now

Reviews & Ratings

Hockey Match on the Ice at Montreal, Canada

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

À la hauteur

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The Secret Life of Brian

35 Up

Night Will Fall

28 Up

HyperNormalisation

McQueen

21 Up

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

One of Them Is Named Brett

Come See Me in the Good Light

The Class of ‘92

Directed by John Ford

The Perfect Victim

What Can You Do About It?

Sprechende Hände. Das Taubstummblinden-Heim in Nowawes bei Potsdam

Zip

Sidney

Miss Representation

We Live in Public

The Age of Stupid

Fuck

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

American Teen

The Current: Explore the Healing Powers of the Ocean

Shameless: The Art of Disability

Under the water

Frankenstein Created Robyn

Unkaputtbar

Larapinta: End to End

Gosia@Tomek

Thriving with Cerebral Palsy: The Cordell Brown Story

Finding A Way Through

The Color of Fear 3: Four Little Beds

letters to eleanore

The Beast with a Thousand Faces

The Skin Horse

Playing the Fool

Overview

Release Date

Production

Watch Now

Reviews & Ratings

Hockey Match on the Ice at Montreal, Canada

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

À la hauteur

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

The Secret Life of Brian

35 Up

Night Will Fall

28 Up

HyperNormalisation

McQueen

21 Up

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

One of Them Is Named Brett

Come See Me in the Good Light

The Class of ‘92

Directed by John Ford

The Perfect Victim

What Can You Do About It?

Sprechende Hände. Das Taubstummblinden-Heim in Nowawes bei Potsdam

Zip

Sidney

Miss Representation

We Live in Public

The Age of Stupid

Fuck

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

American Teen

The Current: Explore the Healing Powers of the Ocean