The film’s Cannes reception was tumultuous, with audience members reportedly fainting, and hostility between the press and von Trier (who proclaimed himself “the world’s greatest director.”) Charlotte Gainsbourg won “Best Actress” for her brave and revealing performance. Von Trier dedicated Antichrist to Andrei Tarkovsky, which caused jeers at Cannes and gave critical wags the opportunity to take deserved, if obvious, potshots (Jason Anderson’s “ we now know what it would’ve been like if Tarkovsky had lived to make a torture-porn movie” was a typical dig). Of the two, Antichrist, with its extreme slow-motion photography, was the more difficult and magnificently shot film. Besides this film, British cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle also shot Slumdog Millionaire, for which he received the 2009 Academy Award, in the same year. The idea for the fox came from a shamanic journey taken by von Trier. The therapy He employs in the film is called “exposure therapy” (where an anxiety-ridden patient is gradually exposed to the source of their irrational fear) von Trier had undergone this treatment for his own anxiety problems, and thought little of the practice. In the title card and much of the promotional art, the “t” in “antichrist” is suggested by a figure combining the Christian cross and the symbol for “woman.”. Von Trier was still depressed at the time of screening and sometimes had to excuse himself from the set. Von Trier says that he was suffering from extreme depression when he made Antichrist and that working on the script and the film was a form of self-therapy. When He discovers the root of She’s anxiety and irrational fears centers around a woodland retreat they call Eden, He forces her to go there to face her fears but when they arrive, nature itself seems determined to drive them both mad. She falls into inconsolable grief, and He, a therapist, unwisely decides to take her under his personal care. PLOT: He and She (the characters are nameless) are making love when their child tumbles to his death out of a window. “If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, is the movie he would have made.”– John Waters, “Artforum Magazine”įEATURING: William Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg I’ve never witnessed a performance like it.366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. Richard & Mary Corliss, Time Charlotte Gainsbourg gives a phenomenal, fearless performance. Michael Phillips, Time Out Chicago (Von Trier)'s a real moviemaker, a composer of rich imagery as evocative as it is provocative, a master matador at waving a red cape in front of the most jaded viewers and getting them to charge. Manohla Dargis, The New York Times A must-see. This is to say that von Trier had us all. 
Stephen Holden, The New York Times I don’t think I breathed for the last half - out of shock, out of stress, out of disbelief. Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice I would be lying if I didn’t admit that this impossible movie kept me hooked from start to finish. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Brilliantly made, it’s beautiful to look at, it’s partly surreal and partly naturalistic… brilliant. And if you can think beyond what he shows to what he implies, its depths are frightening. The performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless.
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