Just the mere fact that this is shot in minidv *cinemascope* is evidence enough of a director waging a civil war against himself for a full two and a half hours. Neither of these two spectacularly manipulative von Triers is probably of much more than plodding interest on their own: neither the familiarly sadistic miserabilist who plots every hackneyed cruel fate he can think of for his characters in jagged-razor montage, nor the innocent musical ingenue incarnated by his Scandinavian…