His production company explained that he is receiving “the treatment and care that his status needs.”
The screenwriter and director of cinema Danish, Lars von Trierhe revealed in 2022 that he suffers from Parkinson’s disease. This Wednesday, his production company Zentropa explained that it was admitted in a health center Faced with complications with the condition.
With more than 14 feature films in his career, the controversial but acclaimed Von Trier is responsible for films such as “Melancholia”, “Dogville”, “Jack’s house” and “Antichrist”. It is considered One of the most innovative and multidisciplinary directors of current cinemadespite the controversy of some of his works, as well as behaviors inside and outside the set.
The filmmaker had to go to a health center for his illness
According to the publication of the producer Louise Hoch of Zentropa on Instagram, “Lars is currently in relation to a health center that can supply the treatment and care that his status needs.”
“It is a complement to its own private accommodation. Lars is well given the circumstances“He added, lamenting” the need to transmit very personal information “after transcending data on the 68 -year -old filmmaker, in the Danish press.
The filmmaker He had announced that he suffered from the disease in 2022, when he was 66 years old: “As for the Parkinson’s diagnosis of Von Trier, he said:” As a private person, I love medicine. I take so many pills because now I have so many things to cure … I like rules and limits. I also like when I am between the sword and the wall. I have to find something completely new to say. “
In 2023, I had made an Instagram post, which described: “With a little luck, I still have some decent movies ahead.” It was eliminated.
His last credits as director were in the series “The Kingdom”in addition to being preparing “Ètudes”a series of small and modest short films of ten minutes each. In 2018, the Danish filmmaker, creator of the Dogma 95 movement, said he was not going to work back after the very hard shoot of “Jack’s house”: “I felt fatal rolling this movie. And I just have it. I was full of anxiety, alcohol … that’s why I can’t face the filming of another, at least immediately.”
Source: Ambito
