Antichrist (new horror movie from Lars Von Trier)

[theis]

Antichrist is a 2009 horror film directed by acclaimed Danish director Lars von Trier (The Kingdom, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville).

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse and they encounter strange and terrifying occurrences.

Starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, the film is scheduled for release on May 29th, 2009 in France.



Trailer: http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/in-the-spirit-of-easter-lars-von-triers-antichrist-trailer-hits-the-web/

This is my most anticipated movie this year. It looks fucking amazing.

Thoughts?

[one weak]

wow, looks great. Hopefully this will see a release in the states.

[bright lights, big city]

nice. some Defoe ass-cleavage.

[deftonekid]

Wow seems like a fuckin great movie.

[theis]

Glad you guys are stoked about it too.

[deftonekid]

well he's a great filmmaker so of course we're stoked bro

[whodunit?]

lol, TMV the widow single cover.

[theis]

uhmmm... not at all.

[whodunit?]

watched the trailer. nothing special. another somethimng-is-happening-in-the-woods horror.

[theis]

if you'd seen any of Trier's movies, you would know that it's much more than that.

it looks incredible. my most anticipated movie this year.

[theis]

I'm seeing this on Thursday. Can't fucking wait.

It created an absolute uproar at the Cannes Festival. People were walking out before the movie ended feeling repulsed and disgusted.

Here's Roger Ebert's thoughts on it:

There's electricity in the air. Every seat is filled, even the little fold-down seats at the end of every row. It is the first screening of Lars von Trier's "Antichrist," and we are ready for anything. We'd better be. Von Trier's film goes beyond malevolence into the monstrous. Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief. There were piteous groans. Sometimes a voice would cry out, "No!" At certain moments there was nervous laughter. When it was all over, we staggered up the aisles. Manohla Dargis, the merry film critic of The New York Times, could be heard singing "That's Entertainment!"

Whether this is a bad, good or great film is entirely beside the point. It is an audacious spit in the eye of society. It says we harbor an undreamed-of capacity for evil. It transforms a psychological treatment into torture undreamed of in the dungeons of history. Torturers might have been capable of such actions, but they would have lacked the imagination. Von Trier is not so much making a film about violence as making a film to inflict violence upon us, perhaps as a salutary experience. It's been reported that he suffered from depression during and after the film. You can tell. This is the most despairing film I've ever have seen.

If, as they say, you are not prepared for "disturbing images," I advise you to just just stop reading now.

The film involves a couple, He and She, whose infant child falls out a window and smashes to the pavement while they are making explicit love. They feel devastating grief. He, a psychologist, takes She off psychotropic medications, and they go to live in their secluded hideaway in the forest, a cottage named Eden.

He subjects her to probing questions and the discussion of the Meaning of it All, which must affect her like a needle to an inflamed tooth. Oh, He is quite intelligent and insightful, and brings passive aggression to a brutally intimate level. Then she wounds him, and while he's unconscious she used a large woodscrew to drill a hole through his keg and bolt a grindstone to it. He drags himself into the forest and tries to hide in an animal burrow. She finds him, and pounds him with a shovel to force him deeper. Then she tries to bury him alive.

Holy shit...so excited.

[theis]

Saw it last night.

This drained me...

Without a doubt the most unpleasent and dispairing movie I've ever watched. It's not just the graphic imagery that got to me, but the overall tone of the movie was incredibly dreadful and you could almost feel a presence of some sort of "evil".

This is a hard movie to review. It crosses all barriers when it comes to movie making...ALL. It makes you question yourself about what art is and if there's anything as going "too far"?

But don't dismiss this. It's certainly much more than just being graphic for the sake of it.
First off, the cinematography is absolutely flawless. The opening scene had me in absolute awe. Beautiful...
And my deepest respect to Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsburg. I could only imagine how much this would drain the actors both mentally and physically. They are amazing and deserve Oscars.

I have to mention the violence too, since it's a critical aspect. This isn't "torture porn" of any kind. It's natural (it's looks almost too realistic), physical sexual violence. That's why it works so effective on the audience. You can almost feel their pain.
Never before have I watched a movie where I felt the urge to look away.
You would think that, in the end, all this violence and self molestation is just a shock tactic, but I assure you it's not. There is actually a plot and a senseable progression of the movie. I of course won't say too much. People need to see it.

I can understand why some people wouldn't like it, and that okay. This is most definitely not for everyone.

It may not be a movie that made me feel good, but it made feel something and had an effect on me. It's beautiful, sad, poetic, horrific and in the end, oddly uplifting. A genre masterpiece.

A must see.

10/10.

[bright lights, big city]

good review. now i just need to wait for the dvd i guess. i honestly cannot see this coming to the states, especially in a wide release.

[theis]

IFC just bought the right to it, so there should be a chance it'll get released in mid July in the US. I've heard they're (IFC) usually pretty quick when it comes to releasing movies.