After the death of their only child, a therapist takes his grieving and anxiety-ridden wife to a retreat in the woods to face her irrational fears; when they arrive, nature itself seems determined to drive them both mad. Controversial, unnecessarily graphic shock scenes take the...( read more)
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe
A grieving couple retreat to 'Eden', their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse...( read more
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January 19, 2010
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December 23, 2009
Prologue: Whilst a husband and wife have sex at home, their toddler climbs out a window and falls to his death. In the film, the husband is a therapist and is known simply as He. Similarly, the wife is a researcher into the history of witchcraft and is known simply as She. Note: ...( read more)
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November 3, 2009
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)
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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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February 9, 2010
Antichrist is a magnificent film. I don?t know how but it moved me in a lot ways than the usual movie!!! This film is much more an art piece and makes me feel things that I never thought a movie would ever make me feel. Lars Von Tirer has always attempted to go beyond the limits ...( read more)
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February 5, 2010
The story is interesting and is visually very good filmed. It started very well, but then there are a lot of scenes very similar and it turned to be some kind of boring, however there were a couple of good dialogues. The climax is thrilling, but a little too exagerated, and above...( read more)
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February 3, 2010
An understandably provocative film that tries to explore the process of grief as well as self-loathing. Its not as misogynist as people claim but at its heart its about death and sex.
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
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
Antichrist is a fairground ride through the brain of a genius, both nightmarish and apocalyptic. Trier's head is the most dangerous place in modern cinema, its multiple caverns mysteriously structured... full review
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