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A man’s leg impaled then filled with a wheel. Female genitals scissored in graphic close-up.

How bad does it get? The bludgeoning of an erect penis. Psycho-horror goes body-horror goes torture-porn. Scenes of beauty continue to surface – from Dafoe’s incredible-looking face in close-up, to Gainsbourg willing herself to blend into the grass – before von Trier finally spins over the top and down the other side. Glimpsed briefly in statuette form in the prologue, a deer, a crow and a fox all provide grisly portends of what’s to come.

Sure enough, after a measured, masterfully paced first 45 minutes, Gainsbourg rapidly goes mental – along with the movie itself.

Given that von Trier breaks up his movie with chapter headings like ‘Pain’, ‘Grief’ and ‘Despair’, you get the feeling that recuperation isn’t exactly on the cards. We flash to colour and real-time: the woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) crumpled with grief her therapist husband (Willem Dafoe) taking her to an isolated cabin in a forest called Eden. The stunning imagery runs way too close to art-school pretension for it to be anything other than deliberate. In another room, their two-year-old son falls to his death from an open window, landing in the street below like a broken snow angel.Īlready, von Trier is messing with us. Lensed in slo-mo by DoP Anthony Dod Mantle in gleaming black-and-white to Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’ (translation: ‘Leave me to weep over my cruel fate’), Antichrist’s prologue sees a couple having passionate sex as the snow tumbles outside. But if that's a dumb reading of the movie, its just doesn't hold up anyway.His ‘horror’ film (although it barely fits that genre) begins in captivating beauty. Like a message of how men just reppress those emotions and results in anger against women, explaining misogyny (or whatever). I felt that a good theme of the movie was how men deal with painful emotions by just abusing women and taking advantage in the more emotional female to let them charge with all the guilt in a given situation of shared guilt (like in this case). Its like it touches so many dark human emotions that it ends in kind of a contradiction. But what Im not so sure is: What's the point of all this? The themes (self hatred, deppression, guilt) are all there, but I feel they lose coherence. The themes (self hatred, deppression, I admit the movie is great at making you feel bad, deppressed (and oppressed) with imagery and visuals, incredible acting from both leads, and graphic and painful scenes. So that's great.īut what Im not so sure is: What's the point of all this? I admit the movie is great at making you feel bad, deppressed (and oppressed) with imagery and visuals, incredible acting from both leads, and graphic and painful scenes. If intellect is your thing, this is for you. If you're looking for a film for sexual or violent gratification don't bother with this. The acting is incredible from both characters. Although graphic in it's adult content, it's not really a film for entertainment, it's deeply thought provoking, shocking and artistic in the most absurd way. I defy anyone not to be moved by the opening images, however, I also think you need to understand depression, anxiety and panic attacks, even have personal experience, to fully appreciate what this film is all about. The first few scenes, in extra slow motion, are incredibly powerful. Yes, there are gruesome images and scenes of a sexual nature but in my opinion it is all within the context of the story. I defy I'm not a film person and generally can't sit through them but this one is the exception. I'm not a film person and generally can't sit through them but this one is the exception.