Antichrist

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  • Opened October 23, 2009 
  • 1 hr 49 min
  • While a married couple (Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg) is having sex, their infant son in a nearby room falls out a window to his death. She becomes distraught and is hospitalized, but her husband, who is a psychiatrist, attempts to treat her. Deciding that she needs to face her fears, he takes her to a cabin in the woods where she spent a previous summer with the boy. Once they are there, she becomes more unhinged and starts perpetrating sexual violence on her husband and herself. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Director: Lars von Trier
  • Genres: Drama, Horror

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

Like a nightmare you recall during waking hours, and then only in its vast outlines, Antichrist has the power to haunt beyond words. For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

By turns repellent, powerful and ludicrous, Antichrist piles horror on horror with pitiless passion. Read full review

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NPR
| Mark Jenkins

For a hymn to panic and hostility, the movie is curiously artful. But only the most sympathetic viewers will find that its poetry outweighs its belligerence. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter
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Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle, this may be the least artistically successful film von Trier has ever made. Read full review

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Willem Dafoe as He and Charlotte Gainsbourg as She in "Antichrist."