Dogville

I was very much influenced by Lars von Trier’s Dogville. I know that sounds like a peculiar thing to say – Dogville has no scenery, whereas Mamma Mia! is set on a beautiful Greek island. But Dogville has a kind of naivety, a theatricality, that I really liked, and a sense of people just turning up and playing. It’s anti-realist in a very interesting way. I remember watching it with the designer, Mark Thompson, and thinking: 'We’re making a musical that’s quite raw and exposing, we’re not going t

The films that have been on my mind [for Hereditary] are Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Dogville, and [Robert Bresson’s] Mouchette. Those films were very impactful to me because they are about communities, and the way those communities, through their belief systems, can cause a kind of evil.

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