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Antichrist reviewed

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The overwhelming lesson that we're supposed to take from Lars Von Trier's Antichrist is simple: chaos rains. It rains on a tin roof, it rains acorns on Willem Dafoe, it rains until it pours so much bitter resentment and anger at the state of how man treats nature that the only way to continue living is simply be consumed by it.
Though, we're getting too far ahead of ourselves. This is the film, after all, that prompted one of the more infamous 2009 Cannes press conferences and proved why we like Von Trier. In fact, as spectacle, Antichrist fails. Built up for months as the most visceral and disturbing films that any audience could see, it feels more like that first AM screening at Cannes will be the only people who feel that way.
Broken into sections, we're introduced to He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in poetic slow-motion fucking. The use of that term is intentional, since Von Trier clearly wants a reaction from on-screen penetration and tangled bodies. From the shower to the bed, beads of water crawl and their son Nic (Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm) move towards their inevitable climax--again, forever tarnished by that first AM screening at Cannes, since this is a film about grief. From there, He and She do their best to overcome the grief, as He feels confident in diagnosing his wife's problems.
Yet She can't cope and inevitably, He realizes they must retreat to their cabin, "Eden," for her to recover. While Von Trier made his annoyance with his own symbolism known, thus we begin the crawl to the violence that reportedly had people vomiting at Toronto and fainting at Cannes. There is something here with Von Trier's inevitable reveal that nature is evil and women are the most evil creatures because men force them this way, but it gets kicked up into the extreme with special guest appearances from The Woodland Christmas Critters.
Visually, Von Trier is on. The use of rain and nature to convey this hell on Earth is perfect, and no one is more willing to get up close than he is when it comes to making people suffer. The message feels redundant by the end, even with repetition of "The Three Beggers," which He notes, "that isn't even a real constellation!"
Definitely worth seeing, but as to whether or not this is a comedy or a Trash Humpers-esque "film as fast as I can and plot be damned," that's entirely up to you. Just bring an umbrella.

Antichrist plays tonight at 9 pm and tomorrow [10/3] at 1 pm as part of the New York Film Festival. It will be released as Video-on-Demand on 10/21 and in limited theatrical on 10/23 by IFC Films.

-John Lichman
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Lars Von Trier is in the Cinema

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Yesterday's screening of Antichrist was certainly something at New York Film Festival. It marked a couple of firsts from a nearly packed Walter Reade Theater, a q&a press conference done via Skype and my first sighting of Armond White. It was like Christmas mixed in with genital mutilation and acorns.

But we'll get to Antichrist later. The main event of yesterday was LVT and a buzzed-up, caffinated crowd praying for a repeat from his earlier Cannes press conference. Everyone was prepping Flip cams, propping up recorders and I could do both at once thanks to my magical iPhone.

Perhaps the strangest part was the open disdain being given off from the crowd. While at the press conferences for Sweetgrass and The Art of the Steal, no one so much as chuckled unless the directors related some charming anecdote. In the set-up to Von Trier, the crowd was in stitches, heckling and calling out at the screen as Big Brothers Lars lorded over his people.

"I'm happy to see all you people in New York," Von Trier said. "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."

That was the answer to a question about whether or not he was glad Antichrist had been making the rounds and was now in the city. It wouldn't be the end to the minor technical difficulties that ranged from low-speakers to Huffington Post folks relating five minute long questions about Nietzsche, Von Trier's view of him of the philosopher and then repeating the question. Twice.

That leads to another press conference favorite of mine: the "I have a couple of questions." This is the preferred M.O. of Boston Herarld's Stephen Schaefer, nailing three questions in a row the second he was called on like a giddy school girl. Asking if he felt Von Trier's self as a director and thereby provoceteur would be ashamed since there were no walk-outs at the press screening.

"Did not notice any walkouts? Then I have failed," Von Trier boomed from the screen, clearly accepting and discarding the loaded question with ease.

The crowd didn't. Half a dozen jeered "Yes they did!" and "People left!"

It took Armond White nearly 18 minutes to leave, as discussion of J-Horror finally got him out of the theater. Yet he missed the best part, as a shy and quiet first-row attendee within the Flip cam crew asked about all the symbolism presented throughout Antichrist. Von Trier took a moment and quickly related, "Of course, it's called Eden. I know."

The entire theater erupted in laughter.

"I was definitely uncritical of the script, which is why [Eden] is in there."

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