Antichrist
Cast & Crew
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Director
Lars von Trier -
Producer
Meta Louise Foldager -
Writer
Lars von Trier
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He
Willem Dafoe -
She
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Synopsis
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. - In Theaters October 23rd, 2009.
Latest Updates
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Vomit at the TIFF 'Antichrist' Screening!
Published on: September 11, 2009
By Shannon Nystedt
movieset.com
There has been a lot of speculation about the content in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. The film stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg and tells the story of a couple who lose their young son and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. After that, things go from bad to worse. Featuring several scenes of raw sex and violence, the film has provoked a slew of negative reactions from audiences and critics, but none so radical as at the Toronto International Film Festival, where a man in the audience at the Antichrist screening vomited on the viewers in front of him.
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Lars Von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ Provokes Wild Controversy
Published on: August 21, 2009
By Shannon Nystedt
movieset.com
Directed by Lars Von Trier (Dogville), Antichrist stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. The film struck a great deal of controversy over the last year for featuring several scenes of raw sex and violence that have provoked negative reactions from audiences and critics. At the Antichrist premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May it received a hefty chorus of boos, and was almost banned in England by a British newspaper. The film is next scheduled to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival where it will no doubt continue to create controversy.
“…It's really audacious and disturbing and it's going to divide people and get them talking, which is what von Trier is trying to do…”Read the full article here.
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