English Movie Antichrist 2009
Cast And Crew
Directed by Lars von Trier
Writing Lars von Trier
Cast.. Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Produced by
Bettina Brokemper .... executive co-producer
Madeleine Ekman .... co-producer
Meta Louise Foldager .... producer
Peter Garde .... executive producer
Sanne Glæsel .... line producer: Denmark and Germany
Peter Aalbæk Jensen .... executive producer
Lars Jönsson .... co-producer
Andrea Occhipinti .... co-producer
Ole Østergaard .... co-producer
Johannes Rexin .... line producer: Germany
Marianne Slot .... executive co-producer
Malgorzata Szumowska .... co-producer
Genre Drama | Horror more
Release date 23 October 2009 usa
Tagline:
When nature turns evil, true terror awaits. (UK)
Plot: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.
Story
A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within
Review
Readers: beware. You may be used to the sight of blood-splattered walls, decomposed human flesh, and probably enjoy the thrill of watching slasher and torture scenes – in all likelihood, you are a horror aficionado, who knows the name of every Universal Studios horror film, and has a picture of Herschell Gordon Lewis hanging from the wall in your living room. Still, it takes a lot of guts not to close your eyes in some scenes of Lars Von Trier’s controversial ANTICHRIST (2009).
It does not take much for a film to scandalize Cannes; one can expect that the festival’s audience, mainly composed of influential mainstream critics, actors and executives, would not approve of explicit sex scenes, graphic genital mutilation, animals that eat their own flesh, and child torture. Those, however, who would not feel offended by a scenario of true Grief, Pain and Despair (the names of the first three of four chapters into which the narrative is divided), should simply be prepared to enter a magical – yes, magical! – world where, just as written by Danish screenwriter and director Von Trier, “chaos reigns”.
Starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, ANTICHRIST begins as a poetic drama, portraying a couple’s grief after losing their only son while having sex inattentively. The breathtaking high definition images, shot with RED One and Phantom cameras (the latter, an extremely high speed camera, used to shoot slow motion scenes) under Anthony Dod Mantle’s undeniable cinematography skills, do not prepare the viewers for the sharp change in the story’s direction, turning the drama into a story of true terror. Trying to help his wife cope with the loss of their child, Dafoe’s character, an arrogant therapist, takes his spouse to an isolated cabin (Eden), where she spent the previous summer with their son. Nonetheless, what starts out as an idyllic journey to recovery quickly turns into a nightmare like very few of us would have. In ANTICHRIST, Eden is far from what Catholics think of it; on the contrary, Von Trier’s Eden is Hell.
The names of both protagonists are unknown; He or She could be any couple, and Eden could be any place where an individual discovers his own demons. Disturbing events that happened during the wife’s previous vacation at the cabin are progressively unveiled. Albeit being mortified, the husband/therapist is still compelled to help his spouse. Faithful to his wedding vows or maybe to his vows as a therapist, the arrogant character ignores the extent of his wife’s madness and falls into a trap that leads to torture, pain and despair. It does not take a puritan to be upset by heavy scenes of torture, blood ejaculation, and female genital mutilation. Harassed by the critics, who demanded an explanation for what they saw as “violence for the sake of violence”, the director said that he could offer no excuse for ANTICHRIST, other than his absolute belief in the film. I believe in it too.
Some have accused ANTICHRIST and its creator of misogyny. Others, who are not bothered by gore flicks or sex scenes and who do not expect films to deliver a moral lesson, are able to enjoy the feature for being a work of art, given its precise direction, superb acting, cinematography and score. The turning of an apparently grief-stricken mother into a monster can be interpreted as quite the opposite of misogyny. For thousands of years, women have been expected to nurture and create, whereas men represent destruction. Horror fans will probably appreciate Von Trier’s creation of a female psychopath, a villain that, unlike CHUCKY’S BRIDE and other soulmates of male psychos, is evil herself. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s character is neither a heroine nor a defenseless victim. She can kill, destroy, and even harm herself, terrifying a man as an equal.
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