Movies | May 18, 2009 | 9 comments

Von Trier's ANTICHRIST-Silly. Over the top. Funny. Powerful. Memorable. Disappointing

source: http://www.indiewire.com/article/off_the_edge_the_primal_power_of_von_triers_antichrist/

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With “Antichrist,” Lars Von Trier fully lives up to his reputation as an outrageous provocateur and master image-maker. Love it or hate it, boo it or applaud it-as audiences did both simultaneously after the world premiere here in Cannes-the film is the most shocking of the festival so far, with critics and journalists buzzing around the Palais post-screening in a newly energized frenzy.

Described in early reports as a horror film, “Antichrist,” certainly has its moments of shock and suspense-and a notable dose of body horror, specifically. But it would be wrong to liken the film to an “Exorcist” or some strange spin on the rape-revenge narrative (i.e. “I Spit on Your Grave”). While it shares some weird sexual politics with those movies, “Antichrist” doesn’t generate fear in the same way. In several scenes, Von Trier’s sense of foreboding recalls David Lynch, as trees, bushes and images of animal flesh take on a similar sense of uncanny dread.

The story stems from a morbid riff on Freud’s concept of the primal scene: The moment that a young child sees his parent’s having sex. But in Von Trier’s version...
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9 comments // Von Trier's ANTICHRIST-Silly. Over the top. Funny. Powerful. Memorable. Disappointing

  • plan138
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      plan138  

    • This movie just seemed like a really bad acid trip. There is def gore but it's not really the kind of gore that you want to see. The gore made me wiggle in my seat more than it scared me. Yes the movie is eerie but the symbolism is kind of lost towards the last 15 minutes. Im glad I watched it, but I dont want to see it again.

    • 2 years ago
  • vonlove
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      vonlove  

    • Lars has done it again!! Rather, I hope he's done it again. The trailer for this film recalls the intense string of emotions experienced while viewing his previous works (with the exception of Manderlay)...Hopefully my anticipation and high hopes for its release won't fall flat once I'm in the theater seat.

    • 2 years ago
  • vistapoint
  • themotivateddropout
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      themotivateddropout  

    • i'm sure it's gonna be a good movie. but good like eraserhead was good. thats one of the only good movies i can think of worthy of booing and cheering simultaneously.

    • 2 years ago
  • wirehedd
  • eta
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      eta  

    • those guidelines were more a reaction to that era, and many of them bended the rules here and there anyway. but with cinema where it is now, and reapportionment and revival of economical cinema, dogma 95 is no longer needed or necessary. but hey, von trier is still producing pretty uncompromising work.

    • 2 years ago
  • Pericles_Lewnes
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  • trelk
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      trelk  

    • i sure would like to see this one. i am sure the critics will do their best to get back at von trier for having to sit through it. roger ebert called it "the most depressing film he has ever seen" in his blog. one thing that excites me is that this film may have taken the piss and vinegar out of the critics and judges so that when gaspar noe's new film, enter the void, screens later this week it may be judged with a little less of a reactionary tone...it no doubt, judging by noe's past work, will contain certain scenes of ultra-violence, sex, drugs, etc.

    • 2 years ago
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