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Antichrist Movie Review
14 July 2009 2:30 PM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
Had I been in the instantly infamous premiere of Antichrist at Cannes this year, I’d have picked the pro side and clapped as loud as I could, with all my might, done my best to drown out the boos and the derisive laughter. Indeed, when I was still fresh out of the Antichrist wringer in the early hours of Saturday morning, I was immediately ready to get fed through again. Having said that, there was definitely a lot in this film that, under different circumstances, I would have hurled popcorn at myself. In fact, in one respect, this picture is an abject failure… The narrative is outwardly simple: a couple are bereaved of their son and the wife experiences some unusually deep and pervasive grief, they retreat to a quiet place so that he (Willem Defoe) might help her (Charlotte Gainsbourg) heal, but instead she has the control and
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Brendon Connelly
Gainsbourg 'felt masochistic in Antichrist'
14 July 2009 6:40 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Charlotte Gainsbourg has said that she felt masochistic at points when filming Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. The actress told The Times that she was both scared and excited while shooting one scene where Willem Dafoe's character strangles her. Gainsbourg said: "I would ask him to be tough and I didn't breathe myself. I thought my vessels were going to pop and it scared me. But in a good way. "That's (more)
By Mayer Nissim
Gainsbourg's Mother Helped Her Through Antichrist
13 July 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Charlotte Gainsbourg sent text messages to her actress mother Jane Birkin every day while filming horror/drama Antichrist - so she could laugh about the traumatic scenes she had to shoot.
Gainsbourg was terrified of her role in Danish moviemaker Lars von Trier's violent and graphic film, in which her character mutilates her own genitals while struggling to cope with the loss of her only child.
So the 37 year old turned to her mum Birkin for approval - and to find humour in filming the brutal scenes.
She explains, "I had a real dialogue with my mother during the shoot. I needed to make jokes about the whole thing. It was so heavy and it was great to be able to describe my day to her and joke with her about what I was doing.
"It was like, 'Guess what I've been doing today?' You know, my day would go from crying and howling and screaming into the sex and the blood. It was hysterical and to put it into words in a text message was hilarious."
Gainsbourg even referred to her mother's sexually explicit 1969 movie Je t'aime... moi non plus, directed by her French filmmaker father Serge Gainsbourg, to feel justified in taking on such a daring part.
She adds, "It's true that for this film I did refer to my mother a lot, in the sense that she had done Je t'aime... moi non plus, and it was very shocking at the time. And she was into a lot of sex scenes and nudity and it was like permission for me to do it myself.
"It's like she had been on that journey before me and, really, it gave me the authorisation to do what I was doing and to know that it was Ok, even to feel good about it and not ashamed."
"Antichrist - UK Quad
2 July 2009 2:11 PM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news
Here's the UK Quad for Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" Synopsis Charlotte Gainsbourg ("I'm Not There"; "21 Grams"; "Lemming") and Willem Dafoe ("Spider-man"; "The Last Temptation Of Christ") star as a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. UK release date: 24 July 2009 www.antichristthemovie.com...
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Bertucelli and Gainsbourg Fall not to Far from 'Father's Tree'
30 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news
- Almost seven years since her breakout Since Otar Left, Julie Bertucelli is finally setting sail on her sophomore feature. The French filmmaker will be packing her bags for Australia (home of the film's source material) along with an actress who is coming off a career high and huge win for Best Actress at Cannes for her role as a distraught mother/wife in Antichrist. Charlotte Gainsbourg boards the English language film The Father’s Tree, Cineuropa.org reports that shooting will commence in Brisbane at the start of August and shoot for two months. Further casting is needed to fill the role of the daughter. Written by Bertucelli, the Aussieland-French co-production is based on author Judy Pascoe’s novel "Our Father Who Art in a Tree", this centres on 10-year-old Simone, who has recently lost her father and imagines him speaking to her from the top of the large tree in the family garden.
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The Controversial "Antichrist" Gets U.S. Release Date And Video-On-Demand Launch!
25 June 2009 11:12 AM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news
If you're a fan of director Lars von Trier and adore his cinematic sensibilities, then get ready. IFC has announced their plans on the release dates of "Antichrist."
*** In Los Angeles and New York, "Antichrist" will be shown in theaters Oct. 23
*** "Antichrist" will also be available on video-on-demand Oct. 21 (Have I told you I love this feature? Watching new IFC releases on demand?
Charlotte Gainsbourg, who stars as She in the film, won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in this psychological erotic-horror tale.
So Gainsbourg alone is a big reason to watch this haunting film.
But the big question -- will "Antichrist" be shown in the Us uncut similar to its censor-free debut in Britain?
Gosh, I hope so!
Manny
‘Antichrist’ Shows Up on Your Doorstep for Halloween
25 June 2009 7:27 AM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news
I thought about creating a title that would evoke a sense of the rising of the dark destroyer of the world coming around the time of the spookiest of all holidays, but instead I decided to evoke the image of a young child only dressed as the Antichrist trick 'r' treating in your neighborhood. You're welcome. Unfortunately, since all of you are true Rejects (and therefore film fans), you probably got the image of a naked Willem Dafoe showing up asking for candy. Which is incredibly accurate since IFC Films is going to be shoving Lars Von Trier's (fresh out of Cannes!) Antichrist into theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 23. I'm guessing they didn't want to go head to head with Saw 39. This raises some awesome questions: Will the MPAA have to create something beyond Nc-17 for an American release of the film? Will I personally hate it (like Dogville) or love it
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Dr. Cole Abaius
The Antichrist to bow on October 23
24 June 2009 7:18 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news
Variety reports that Lars Von Trier's Antichrist will get a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on October 23rd - two days after it is set to debut on IFC's Video-on-demand service.
IFC, the biggest buyer at this year's Cannes Film Festival, snapped up the psychological erotic-horror title during the fest. Pic, which has sexually explicit content, stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. Meta Louise Foldager produced and Peter Aalbaek Jensen and Peter Garde exec produced.
The Cannes jury presented Gainsbourg with its actress award.
IFC will widen the theatrical release after the platform launch.
See the trailer and three clips right here, and read Allan Jones' report from Cannes here.
no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
Controversial 'Antichrist' Gets Pre-Halloween Release
24 June 2009 7:17 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
IFC is giving Lars von Trier's Cannes controversial film Antichrist a pre-Halloween release in Los Angeles and New York, with the film to go out October 23. IFC, the biggest buyer at this year's Cannes Film Festival, snapped up the psychological erotic-horror title during the fest. The pic, which has sexually explicit content, stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. The Cannes jury presented Gainsbourg with its actress award. IFC will widen the theatrical release after the platform launch. The company, which usually releases theatrical titles simultaneously on video-on-demand, has set a VOD date of Oct. 21 for "Antichrist." Click the title for some clips and more info.
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Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist' Gets U.S. Release Date
24 June 2009 5:57 PM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
One of the year's most controversial films is headed to a theater near you on October 23rd. That's the date Lars von Trier's Antichrist bows in New York and Los Angeles, several months after its debuts in most of Europe. In the UK, for example, the film opens uncut on July 24th.
Von Trier - whose work is never easy to digest, really - shocked audiences at Cannes with his new film, which stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. He was diffident in press conferences about the reaction, and if nothing else, it was well-played publicity. The game was gobbled up by IFC for domestic distribution and has even inspired a video game spin-off.
Colin Boyd
Eiff 09: From Dogme to Damnation, projectcyclops reviews Trier's Antichrist
24 June 2009 1:38 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news
Year: 2009
Directors: Lars von Trier
Writers: Lars von Trier
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 9 out of 10
[Editor's note: With the massive schism caused by this film I've been unconvinced, that is until I read this review. It's spine-tingling.]
Lars von Trier. Not a name immediately associated with dark horror and extreme violence, but rather with European independent cinema and the Dogme ’95 movement. With his latest film, Antichrist, Trier has stayed away from the shaky camera, gotten himself a crew and two of the best actors of their generation, and made the most explicit, terrifying and surreal film of the last 10 years, steeped in horrific symbolism and unremitting brutality. I loved it.
Films like this don’t come along too often, and when they do, I don’t believe that they should be condemned or scorned, but rather genuinely celebrated for breaking boundaries and pushing the medium as far as possible. Trier starts his film with one of the most beautifully crafted scenes I’ve ever witnessed, a slow motion montage of sex and death,
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IFC Sets Antichrist Release Date
24 June 2009 | From shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news
IFC will release Lars von Trier's Antichrist pre-Halloween in Los Angeles and New York on October 23rd. The psychological erotic-horror film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe. The pic is about a grieving couple that retreats to their cabin, "Eden," in the woods, hoping a return to the woods will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse... IFC will widen the theatrical release after the platform launch. The company has set a video-on-demand date of Oct. 21.
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Von Trier’s Controversial ‘Antichrist’ Inspires Video Game
18 June 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news
From MTV Movies Blog: Genital mutilation! I know that got your attention. I’m not using as a means of misdirection either. Genital mutilation really does apply to the news I have to share.
You may or may not have heard, but one of the films that generated a lot of buzz at the Cannes International Film Festival this year was director Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist,” starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. That’s not to say it was well-received. Or poorly received. It was certainly received however, with its shocking depictions of sexuality and graphic violence. How shocking… well let’s just say that I’m not comfortable printing the gory details here.
Read more about “Antichrist: The Video Game” at MTV’s Movies Blog.
Russ Frushtick
Cannes Buzzer ‘Antichrist’ Getting A Video Game?
18 June 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
Genital mutilation! I know that got your attention. I’m not using as a means of misdirection either. Genital mutilation really does apply to the news I have to share.
You may or may not have heard, but one of the films that generated a lot of buzz at the Cannes International Film Festival this year was director Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist,” starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. That’s not to say it was well-received. Or poorly received. It was certainly received however, with its shocking depictions of sexuality and graphic violence. How shocking… well let’s just say that I’m not comfortable printing the gory details here.
Now a post on the popular NeoGAF video game message forums points to an article on Politiken.dk [via /Film] which reveals that a video game adaptation of the film is currently in development (translated here). A visit to “Antichrist” producer
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Adam Rosenberg
Controversial "Antichrist" to be Shown in Britain with No Cuts, No Censors!
12 June 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news
Lars von Trier ("Dogville," "Dancer in the Dark"), one of the true visionaries in modern cinema, created a film full of sex, violence, and female self-mutilation and the British Board of Film Classification said it's all Ok for "Antichrist" to be shown in its entirety. No cuts or snips.
The film will be shown in Britain with an "18" certificate, very similar to our Nc-17 here in the U.S.
In "Antichrist," Willem Dafoe star as He, and Charlotte Gainsbourg is She, a grieving couple who goes back to their cabin in the woods in hopes of repairing their troubled marriage. But little do they know, nature is about to test their bond.
Why did the British Board of Film Classification said yes to "Antichrist?" BBFC director David Cooke said, "The sexual imagery, while strong, is relatively brief, and the board has since 1990 passed a number of works containing such images.
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Manny
Cannes Sensation Antichrist To Be Uncut In The UK
12 June 2009 12:39 PM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news
If by some chance you did not hear about Danish director Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” last month, then you certainly will come July 24th.
Dubbed by many outraged critics in Cannes as the most brutal, disturbing and depending on the person, offensive film to come out of the festival in years, news broke today that the fully uncut version will arrive in British cinemas on July 24th. The BBFC have handed the film an 18 certificate, which is something of a rarity now, acknowledging that many people will find the explicit penetrative sex, masturbation, extreme torture, bloody violence and genital mutilation “disturbing and offensive”. That sounds like a pretty good guess to me.
The film follows “a grieving couple (Dafoe and Gainsbourg) who retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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Paul Larn
Exclusive Interview: Bryce Dallas Howard on 'Terminator'
4 June 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
When Charlotte Gainsbourg left Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins due to scheduling conflicts, director McG turned to another famous daughter of film royalty, Bryce Dallas Howard to replace her. In this fourth installment of the groundbreaking sci-fi franchise, Howard is Kate Connor, the wife of John Connor, played by Christian Bale, and a member of the resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. A veterinarian in Terminator 3, she has adapted her knowledge of animal physiology and become the rebel group’s resident physician.
Stepping into a part vacated by another actress is not a new experience for Howard. She landed the role of Fisher Willow in Tennessee Williams's Loss of A Teardop Diamond when Lindsay Lohan dropped out and, more controversially, Howard was cast by Lars Von Trier to replace Nicole Kidman as Grace in 2005’s Manderlay.
From the set of Terminator Salvation in Albuquerque, Nm, and before
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Yes We Cannes!
29 May 2009 3:42 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news
Attendance was down by 30 percent at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Not surprising, considering the recession still biting and Euro exchange rates keeping prices along the Croisette at ridiculously expensive levels. Yet the number of high-profile genre films in the Official Competition was a bonus for those more used to finding the most controversial entries up for distributor grabs in the Market section. While Park Chan-wook’s Thirst and Gaspar Noe’s Enter The Void certainly had their followers, with Terry Gilliam’s out-of-competition The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus a similar hot ticket, the two biggest stories were Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist.
Cinema saves the world in Tarantino’s disjointed, history-bending homage to war movies, which takes its misspelled name—but very little else—from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 Italian cult exploiter. Divided into chapters, each highlighting a movie style like Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns,
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Alan Jones)
Cannes #6: A devil's advocate for "Antichrist"
27 May 2009 12:43 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news
Lars von Trier's new film will not leave me alone. A day after many members of the audience recoiled at its first Cannes showing, "Antichrist" is brewing a scandal here; I am reminded of the tumult following the 1976 premiere of Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses" and its castration scene. I said I was looking forward to von Trier's overnight reviews, and I haven't been disappointed. Those who thought it was good thought it was very very good ("Something completely bizarre, massively uncommercial and strangely perfect"--Damon Wise, Empire) and those who thought it was bad found it horrid ("Lars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with "Antichrist"--Todd McCarthy, Variety).
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
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Roger Ebert
Cannes #10: And, at last, the winners are...
25 May 2009 11:30 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news
Now I understand why Cannes 2009 opened with Pixar's "Up." They knew what was coming. Has there ever been a more violent group of films in the Official Selection? More negative about humanity? More despairing? With a greater variety of gruesome, sadistic, perverted acts? You know you're in deep water when the genuinely funniest film in the festival is by a Palestinian in today's Israel, whose material includes a firing squad, a mother with Alzheimers, and a hero with dark circles under his eyes who never utters a single word.
And most of these films were not over quickly. Not that there's something wrong with a film running over the invisible 120-minute finish line, if it needs to, and is a good film. I regret that not all the 21 films in this year's selection were good. And that's not just me. The daily critics' panel for Le Film Francais was as negative as I've seen it,
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Roger Ebert
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