Antichrist

Denmark, Germany, 2009

Avant-Garde, Drama

Synopsis

In this highly controversial psychodrama, a heartbroken couple grieving the loss of their child attempts to find peace and sanity in the relationship through a trip to their cabin in the woods. But nature reveals its dark roots as things begin to spiral downwards.

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Antichrist Directed by Lars von Trier

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Awards & Festivals

Cannes Film Festival

2009 | Winner: Best Actress

2009 | Nominee: Palme d'Or

Berlin International Film Festival

2018

Toronto International Film Festival

2009

Village Voice Film Poll

2009 | 2nd place: Best Actress

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

Critics reviews

Cine-File

ANTICHRIST, Lars von Trier's little monster, has the barest, though certainly not the humblest, of beginnings. A horror film, a scaffolding built out of twigs and bones, on to which von Trier can hang animal skins, human limbs, and the sickest jokes his head can brew up. The man is Willem Dafoe and the woman is Charlotte Gainsbourg. There's no monster; only the two of them, alone, with hammers, scissors and a few centuries worth of nightmares. This is a film made out of glistening bile.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

October 23, 2009

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The Ringer

The lack of relief, of any kind, is the comedy. The sheer endurance-test nature of the material takes on its own satirical velocity without undermining the seriousness of the violence, which is graphic in a way that Mother!, with its MPAA R-rating, can’t approach. Nor does it dull the power of the script’s various subtexts, which are nightmarishly contradictory where Aronofsky’s are, finally, far too cute to be unsettling. Mother! solves itself, but Antichrist remains wide open, like a wound.

Adam Nayman

September 21, 2017

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What are people saying?

Max Kazaam Wilde's rating of the film Antichrist
Max Kazaam Wilde

The fact that Antichrist is so polarizing is almost always due to what we see happen on screen rather than the themes the images put together and that's sad. It's a wonderful movie about males and females and western culture (so much really, very symbol heavy), told in a way that is obviously shameless and unforgiving which for a movie like this, was completely called for.
January 29, 2013 21:17
- 7
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salemsharp's rating of the film Antichrist
salemsharp

breathtakingly gorgeous, this to me justifies the medium.
December 04, 2012 11:09
- 5
- 0
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar's rating of the film Antichrist
Hugo Resendiz Saldivar

Es una película muy perturbadora, realmente la sensación de verla es como observar esas pinturas medievales y renacentistas de aquelarres y demonios. La historia que raya en lo común y que muchas veces el cine ha contado, pero Lars Von Trier realiza un ejercicio magistral de como contar una historia con otros recursos. De manera muy intimista, introspectiva y brutal.
October 30, 2012 14:40
- 2
- 0
Beneezy's rating of the film Antichrist
Beneezy

My first Von Trier experience and also the coldest film I've seen in years. I felt the uncomfortable lack of warmth throughout the film. This is a full-throtte depressng film. It was mostly about sex and then death, and then sex again, and so on. I believe Von Trier reached his goal with this one. "Antichrist" is dark, distrubing, and crazy! It's a grim film that wants you to feel the torment its characters do. 5STAR
October 19, 2010 07:52
- 3
- 0
Martin Florio's rating of the film Antichrist
Martin Florio

I have no words for this film. The work of a genius. Amazing in each and every way. I also loved the Tarkovski tribute, but I think he missed the Bergman one too.
June 29, 2010 05:17
- 5
- 0
Jesper Hvass's rating of the film Antichrist
Jesper Hvass

This is a very interesting film. Beautiful cinematography and a devastating story. A future classic. What I don´t understand in the coverage of this film is the tendency to treat this film as if it was some kind of a manifest: "Von Trier is a woman-hater". True, Gainsbourgs character is not your typical american-fun-loving-girl, but I find it simplistic to reduce it to a statement about women.
June 08, 2009 11:21
- 3
- 0
Ally the Manic Listmaker's rating of the film Antichrist
Ally the Manic Listmaker

I absolutely love Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, which is why I gave this film a chance. However, it is one of the worst films I've ever seen and is atrociously ridiculous. Chaos does not reign, sorry.
November 22, 2009 01:35
- 4
- 0
El Biffo's rating of the film Antichrist
El Biffo

I couldn't handle this sadistic film, but it does open up with a XXX porno scene! The rest is just pure sadistic violence, however. Watch it if you like that sort of thing.
February 15, 2014 11:48
- 2
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