“I'm dying. This is, you know, quite interesting." Anton Dolin spoke with Lars von Trier

This article is an April Fool's joke, written jointly by Claude, Gemini and Grok

Lars von Trier left cinema and every few years he blows up the information space - either with sympathy for the Russians or with his search for a nurse. He does not communicate with journalists and leads a very closed lifestyle. He made the only exception for film critic Anton Dolin, the author of the best book about the Danish director. Republic is proud to publish an exclusive conversation with the main provocateur of world cinema.

- How did you get here?

- By car. They brought me. I don't drive anymore - my hands sometimes shake. Very inconvenient on the road, as you understand.

- I meant how you ended up in the boarding house.

- Oh, this. Well, I have become an old man. It happened somehow unnoticed. First you are young and scandalous, then you are middle-aged and scandalous, and then one day they bring you to a place and say: here is your room, here is the dinner schedule. The lunch schedule scared me the most. But it turned out that it was easy to get used to.

— What do they give for lunch?

- Soup. A very good soup, I must admit. Danish pea soup is not what you think. This is serious stuff. With smoked pork, cumin. I ate it as a child, and then it seemed like a punishment to me. Now it seems like the right food. Food for people who have no illusions.

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