Dogme95 in the Tenderloin

A director doing a low-budget feature film in the Dogme95 Lars von Trier directing style called my agent, who called me at work. I got all excited. Til I talked to the director. I was to play a woman in the Tenderloin - an alchie, a druggie, messed up, but with a "heart of gold." I would not look attractive, and I thought that could have its dramatic moments. Shoot would be a long day into night. This director talked way too much about his bad experiences in LA ("waiting around on sets") and didn't have a decent alternative from his Tenderloin apartment as to where we could meet for a "short interview"...One idea was in the entrance to BART! Give me a break, Goddess. He said his last feature was only distributed abroad. At least he gave me the names of two YouTube videos to watch. Saw the first one - lasts about a minute, feels like an eternity. There's no accounting for taste. I emailed him that I would be opting out of this adventure in cinema.

Read up on Danish director/screenwriter Lars von Trier by clicking the title above.
Remember his wonderful 1996 film, "Breaking the Waves" starring Emily Watson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress? Good time to rent it again (it's about a woman's romance with a Norwegian oil rig worker) given the BP oil spill. The oil rig workers are not sweetie pies in "Breaking the Waves."

Here's the plot, via Wiki:

"Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries Norwegian oil rig worker Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. Bess is somewhat simple and childlike, and has difficulty living without Jan when he is away on the oil platform, where he is scheduled to work for ten days. She prays for his immediate return, and when he returns the next day paralyzed by an industrial accident, she believes it is her fault. No longer able to perform sexually, and mentally affected by the accident, Jan urges her to find and have sex with other men and then tell him the details, saying that it would be like them being together again and thus give him a reason to live. With each act of promiscuity she performs Jan's health improves. Bess slowly begins to believe that what she is doing is the will of God. She goes aboard a ship at anchor as a prostitute, but when the men try to have brutal sex with her she fights her way out. Learning that Jan has taken a turn for the worse, Bess returns to the ship. She is brutally gang raped and dies in the hospital. Jan, at this point, miraculously makes a full recovery. The community treats her like a whore during her burial. Unbeknownst to the community, however, Jan and his coworkers have replaced her body in the coffin with bags of sand. They take her actual body out to sea and throw her body in the ocean. Jan and his coworkers hear the peal of church bells coming from the sky in the middle of the ocean, signaling that she is accepted by God."