Antichrist movie synopsis movie#
On the surface, ‘Antichrist’ is a horror movie about a married American couple – he ( No surprise, then, that the study of grief in ‘Antichrist’ is quiet and sensitive, while some of the telling is loud and grandstanding. He’s the reticent artist who thrives at Cannes press conferences. In person, von Trier displays paradoxes that spill over into his work. He likes to shock, and there are moments in ‘Antichrist’ – not least two featuring genital mutilation – that threaten to mask the film’s serious side.
Discomfort, too, is a well-used weapon in his armoury. He’s interested in how we, as an audience, process these ideas and the emotions they provoke. He’s interested in how power emerges, persists and perverts. He’s interested in the control of women by men. Yet once he finds a new theatre for his stories – whether it’s the musical (‘Dancer in the Dark’), the Brechtian morality play (‘Dogville’, ‘Manderlay’) or, as here, the horror movie – familiar ideas come bubbling to the surface. Von Trier never makes the same film twice. Its provocations repel, while its honesty attracts. It pulls you this way and that and convinces you of different versions of the truth. The film is equivalent to witnessing a wild fight between strangers. ’s ‘Antichrist’ twice now and experienced such wildly different reactions to it each time that you might want to consider this review as written in sand, not stone. Click here to read our interview with director Lars Von Trier
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