Playing the Fool (2000)
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.
Cast
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