Lars Von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ Premieres – and Disturbs – at Cannes

Roger Ebert: I rarely find a serious film by a major director to be this disturbing. Its images are a fork in the eye. Its cruelty is unrelenting. Its despair is profound. Von Trier has a way of affecting his viewers like that. After his "Breaking the Waves" premiered at Cannes in 1996, Georgia Brown of the Village Voice fled to the rest room in emotional turmoil and Janet Maslin of the New York Times followed to comfort her. After this one, Richard and Mary Corliss blogged at Time.com that "Antichrist" presented the spectacle of a director going mad.

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May 19, 2009 at 10:36 am - AFP
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Patrick C   May 24th, 2009 - 7:58 am

I haven’t seen the movie, so I cannot comment specifically. If this thing is as violent as it is described, I must ask why anyone would want to waste their time on it? This is just one more example of why I don’t go to the movies any more. I have lots of other better things to do.

Von Trier is SICK   May 24th, 2009 - 4:23 pm

Clearly, the director von Trier IS POSSESSED BY THE ANTICHRIST and is ENJOYING SHOCKING, UPSETTING, & PERVERTING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF OTHERS WHO ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO WATCH HIS CRAP–and he is getting PAID for his EVIL!

SICK, SICK, SICK!

Ginny   May 26th, 2009 - 7:53 am

Vile: abandoned, abject, appalling, bad, base, coarse, contemptible, corrupt, debased, degenerate, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, horrid, humiliating, ignoble, immoral, impure, iniquitous, loathsome, low, mean, miserable, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noxious, perverted, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, sinful, sleazy*, stinking*, ugly, vicious, vulgar, wicked, worthless, wretched.

[...] this movie is interesting.  (I doubt it.)  Or if it’s well conceived.  (Probably not.)   Roger Ebert describes Anti-Christ as, ” Its images are a fork in the eye.  Its cruelty is unrelenting.  Its despair is [...]

Satan   June 25th, 2009 - 12:31 pm

Praise Satan.

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