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Antichrist

2009

Lars von Trier

Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

6.1

25,368

Horror. Thriller. Drama A grieving couple who lost a son retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, the place where she spent the last summer with her baby. There they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress (Charlotte Gainsbourg)

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Brunette The Hollywood Reporter	"Danish director's overly fecund imagination overwhelms a slight but visually splendid story (...) Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The scandal of 'Antichrist' is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I responded to the performances (...) The ways [Dafoe and Gainsbourg] are called upon to act in this film are extraordinary. They respond without hesitation. More important, they convince (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"If you want a bracing evening of pointless controversy in the cinema, then buy tickets (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"Von Trier makes 'Antichrist' about how aesthetic control can be as impotent as therapeutic control when it comes to dealing with nature at its wildest."	POS
United States	Tom Charity CNN	"'Antichrist' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices (...) [It] is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker, nothing more and nothing less"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"This is von Trier’s biggest accomplishment. He has created a world that is true to its own ghastly, shifting logic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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