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Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg. This is the place to leave YOUR reviews for inclusion in the Upstream show! Let us know what you loved, or what you hated about the film . For every one of your webcams or every three text reviews that gets picked for TV, we’ll give you a £10 HMV voucher!
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zwan008
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It has been a long time since a watched a film by Lars Von Trier, but for this one has to be one of the most strange films I have ever seen.
Antichrist is a film about a married couple (William Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) an academic – who retreat into a forest called Eden to work through their grief after the death of their son. This is viewed by having the opening scene in a black and white prologue as we watch this pair make love (with a thrusting shot) as their child falls from a window.
As time goes by Dafoe tries not to mix business and pleasure by treating his wife as both patient and lover. He fails. While his wife goes into deep depression Dafoe insists on dragging his wife through therapy. The film moves beyond realism when Dafoe asks his wife to imagine ‘Eden’. It’s more like a parallel world – a psychological one – as they travel to a metaphorical cabin in the woods, having allsorts of beings like the cabin, the animals (including a ridiculous talking fox) are familiar horror symbols, but the gender war is pure von Trier. The forest turns on the couple, while the couple turn on each other.
The film then turns into a hysterical whirlwind of a story that what we witness feels most like a piercing primal scream from within von Trier. There are points where it feels deeply feminist, at others deeply misogynistic, although the overriding feeling is of sympathy for the wife and antipathy for the husband – plus pessimism about humans in general.
The end result is that Antichrist is a film with a troubling but refreshing sense of an artist uncloaked. A violent conflict of ideas and images. A certainty that von Trier loathes therapists so in my words this film will leave you shocked, stunned and even puzzled by the director that gave us the Dogma film of 'The Idiots' all those years ago.
- 2 years ago
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zwan008
