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Antichrist
A ridiculously bad film that hasn’t split opinion so much as divided people with eyes from the willful contrarians, Lars von Trier’s violent psychodrama wants you to become its next sucker. A couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) grapples with the accidental death of their child by retreating to the woods for some ill-advised self-therapy. The healing involves high-school-mature power games and genital mutilation. “Chaos reigns,” murmurs an animatronic fox in one of the movie’s unwittingly hilarious moments, yet that couldn’t be further from the truth: Antichrist is a rigid, schematic horror film, informed by half-smart notions of female vengeance and inept suspense sequences. Even on its own genre terms, the movie has been bested by recent releases like Jennifer’s Body. Swooningly pretentious, it comes out theatrically in less than a month; save your money. Friday, Oct 2 at 9pm—Joshua Rothkopf
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New York Film Festival 2009
Time Out New York / Issue 730 : Sep 24–30, 2009
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Calling people who disagree with you "willful contrarians" is not critique, it's just bullying.
well said josh... ANTICHRIST wishes it was disturbing but for the first 2 acts it teeters between maddeningly boring & laughably bad. perhaps knowing how little he actually had to say about grief, psychology and human relationships, Von Trier decided in the final act to throw in some good ol' fashioned genital mutilation to give the kids something to talk about.
THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE A "FEEL-GOOD" MOVIE. This is perhaps the greatest movie of the year! You will not forget it. Yes, it is very dark but it also contains some of the most beautiful scences of nature that I have ever seen.
Sorry. That was an editorial error. It's been corrected.
It is not Charlotte Rampling, but Charlotte Gainsbourg
Are you certain it's Charlotte Rampling? Dummies.