It tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods where the man experiences strange visions and the woman manifests. If you can get through that, you have nearly two hours of profound grief, talking animals and the most excruciating 'snip' you will ever see on this side of the dark web. Antichrist (stylized as ANTICHRIS) is a 2009 experimental psychological horror film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. in the 1994 film Farinelli il castrato, to accompany the opening scenes. The fact that this scene is in equal amounts aesthetic triumph as it is off-putting is undoubtedly a courageous way to set the tone. Lars von Trier, Antichrist, 2009, still from a black-and-white and color film. Shot in sumptuous black and white, slow motion images only help to convey the sense of inevitable as the parents make (graphic, full-frontal) love, their son edges closer to the open window as the white snow flakes gently drift downward, a foreshadowing of the deep dive both parents will endure. The opening scene of Antichrist is as beautiful as it is painful.
There is no nice way of padding this: they should have watching the kid but no, they were making the beast with two backs, as it were. The celebrated Dutch director once made arresting movies ( Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves ) that. Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg's characters have to suffer the death of their toddler and if that wasn't bad enough, they are wholly responsible for the tragedy. After all, Antichrist plays like the mutant hybrid of Hostel and Scenes From a Marriage.