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The provocative director has now unveiled the titles of the eight chapters that will comprise the erotic movie's two parts.

It just so happens that this fall's most anticipated opera is provocative director Barrie Kosky's new production of "Bluebeard" at L.A. Opera next month.

After all, he is one of the most stylish and provocative directors of recent times, having forged a name for himself with just eight films including Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and Reservoir Dogs.

This year's Cannes is packed full of auteur films and while Loach was confounding some people's expectations, another director was living up to his form as one of the most controversial and provocative directors in Europe.

At the Schaubühne he has championed the work of some of Germany's most provocative directors, and in Berlin earlier this year I watched his own version of Enemy of the People.

It undoubtedly cultivated an audience for provocative directors like Park Chanwook of South Korea and Takashi Miike of Japan (even though their brilliant, sometimes grueling physical-psychodramas cannot really be described as horror — their fondness for cutting off tongues and feet in their films notwithstanding).

As conceived by the talented and ever-provocative director Dmitri Tcherniakov, these rooms are neutral territory, where the opera's principal characters have gathered at the gypsy Azucena's behest.

2004: Provocative film director Theo Van Gogh, who made Submission, stabbed to death by Dutch-born Islamist Muhammad Bouyeri. Dutch-born Islamist Muhammad Bouyeri

"It is not provocative," the director says, "it is very tender.

Three Kingdoms is a new thriller from Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by provocative German director Sebastian Nübling.

The first major opera based on a film by Lars von Trier is set to debut this week, but don't look for the famously provocative Danish director – and noted opera lover – to have a hand in the work itself.