Who Will Work With von Trier?

2:18 AM PDT 5/26/2011 by Scott Roxborough

The director has survived accusations of anti-Americanism and misogyny, but his Nazi comments could finally sink his career.

As they say in the old country, Oy vey, gevalt!" said the British publicist for Melancholia, succinctly capturing the exasperation everyone connected to Lars von Trier's latest film feels after the Danish director's now-infamous comments at the Cannes Film Festival, in which he jokingly called himself a Nazi and said he "sympathized with Hitler, a little bit."