A Misanthrope and His Crumbling Castle Jorgen Lauersen Vig, the solitary 80-something misanthrope who inhabits the dilapidated Hesbjerg Castle in the Danish countryside, resembles a gaunt, white-bearded magician from a dusty old storybook who has stepped out of a woodblock illustration into the 21st century. Interviewed in Pernille Rose Gronkjaer’s documentary, “The Monastery: Mr. [...]
