Antichrist

Antichrist depicts the anguished reaction of a couple to the death of their son, who falls from a window while they are having sex. They go to stay in a cabin in the woods, named Eden, in an attempt to escape their grief but their efforts to recuperate end in disaster. The wife attacks her therapist husband with a block of wood before drilling a hole in his leg. She commits an act of genital self mutilation with a pair of scissors and is finally strangled by her husband who sets fire to her body. At least four people fainted during the film’s preview screening at Cannes and the director faced an angry crowd at the official press conference. The British media have labelled the film ‘torture porn’ and questioned whether it should have been granted an 18 classification without cuts. TheTamshee says: Lars von Trier is probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer his work is cutting edge, featuring strong real sex scenes, bloody violence and self-mutilation. Willian Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play the lead roles. Not for the faint hearted. You are warned.