It didn't take long for Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" to divide audiences. Reports of screenings at Cannes, Toronto, and other international film festivals described situations of people shrieking, fainting, walking out, and booing vociferously. The "genital mutilation" in the fi...( read more)
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstr?m, Willem Dafoe
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November 3, 2009
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October 26, 2009
I guess I should note that this is not as much as a review as this is a film that I'll honestly admit that you'll either love it or hate it. Sadly I'm in the absolutely hate it with a burning passion. While some will find it insightful and poetic, though sadly for a film that wor...( read more)
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October 25, 2009
It feels pointless to even review Antichrist. I watched this with three other people, my cinematically like-minded boyfriend and two of my best friends, and they all loathed it; I was the film's sole champion. I think that watching it is such a massively personal experience for m...( read more)
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October 23, 2009
''What do you think is supposed to happen in the woods?''
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Willem Dafoe: He
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September 24, 2009
Lars VonTrier went courting for controversy, and he found it. Everywhere Antichrist has played its stirred up fiery debate. Heck, it even won a special anti-award from the ecumenical jury at Cannes for its misogynist views. But is it misogynistic? Is it art? Is it trash? Can art ...( read more)
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November 20, 2009
It was insane. I didn't enjoy it, not even a little. Some of the scenes were so beautiful, but others were a pointless gore fest.
I was traumatized by it. I loved the exploration of Nature as inherently evil, but it all went wrong and it became a film about how *women* were e...( read more) -
November 17, 2009
I was just completely blown away at how beautifully disturbing this is. While it is more visual than narrative, it's just as effective if not more so. This is probably the most brave movie in terms of pushing content and exploiting human nature (and psychotic behavior). Lars Von ...( read more)
Critic Reviews
Von Trier has said he wanted to make a genre horror picture, but he couldn't even come up with a decent metaphor: The climax is out of a Grade C hack-'em-up with people chasing each other through the ... full review
The scandal of Antichrist is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull. full review
"Antichrist" is a curious mash-up of cutting-edge torture-porn and good old porn-porn that fails on both fronts. full review
By turns repellent, powerful and ludicrous, Antichrist piles horror on horror with pitiless passion. full review
The movie immerses itself in the darkest despair imaginable, blending dystopian porn with ghastly horror and graphic violence. But it's all done in a mundane, almost clinical way. full review
Von Trier, who has always been a provocateur, is driven to confront and shake his audience more than any other serious filmmaker -- even Bunuel and Herzog. full review
The quasi-religious title is misleading provocation; Antichrist is really anti-cinema. full review
A word to the squeamish: there is no shame in leaving as the tools--and I use the word advisedly--come out. In a way, you will be getting the best of Antichrist, which until now has been a film of awk... full review
Von Trier says he was suffering from severe bouts of depression when he shot the movie. See Antichrist, and you'll know the feeling. full review
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