Von Trier Film Arouses Anger, Admiration At Cannes
19 May 2009 2:22 AM, PDT

Danish director Lars von Trier has created a storm of controversy at Cannes over his latest film, Antichrist, a horror film that is competing at this year's festival and was screened on Monday. (It was greeted with derisive laughs and boos at a press screening.)

Jonathan Romney in Britain's Screen Daily wondered "why a director this sophisticated would want to put his audience through the mill quite so crudely."

And Todd McCarthy in Daily Variety appeared to respond in kind to the film's tone by commenting, "Lars von Trier cuts a big, fat art-film fart with Antichrist."

And, in arguably his oddest review ever, appearing in today's (Tuesday) Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert, who has returned to Cannes after being sidelined for years by his battle with cancer, called Antichrist the equivalent to a "fork in the eye," and concluded: "Do I believe his film 'works?' Would I 'recommend' it? Is it a 'good' film? I believe von Trier doesn't care how I or anyone else would reply to those questions. He had the ideas and feelings, he saw into the pit, he made the film, and here it is."

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I wonder what the plot is? I don't trust movie critics, never liked them never will either.

I wonder what the plot is? I don't trust movie critics, never liked them never will either.

The movie is about a couple who travel to a cabin after the death of their child to get away. They encounter strange things in the cabin.

The movie also only has two people in it, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe.

I had to look into where all of the praise/criticism in this movie is coming from. Critics didn't like it but Charlotte Gainsbourg had won Best Actress for Cannes so it looks like there is good quality here.

Apparently people had problems with this one scene in the movie. I haven't seen it yet but this is what I have heard. If you do not want to be spoiled and don't like gross things then don't read down below:


After knocking Willem Dafoe out Gainsbourg drills a hole in his leg with a hand drill and bolts him to a grindstone to keep him from escaping. Then she smashes his balls with a blunt object over-and-over. Next, she brings him to a climax with her hands and he ejaculates blood and then cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors.