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Antichrist | DVD review

4 January 2010 8:57 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Artificial Eye

Taking Lars von Trier seriously has never been sensible – he's a prankster who will do anything to get a reaction. Certainly, there are moments in Antichrist (2009, Artificial Eye, 18) in which you can almost hear the unholy auteur cackling with delight behind the mask of soul-searching, depressive gloom under which he allegedly worked. But this lacerating traipse into the mythology of misogyny (which owes an unacknowledged tonal debt to Zulawski's one-time "video nasty" Possession) is his most exasperatingly exciting work to date – and if you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise...

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe take no prisoners as the bereaved couple who retreat to the hellish idyll of Eden, where the ghosts of "Gynocide" rise up to torment them. The Earth burns, chaos reigns and nature is revealed as "Satan's church", complete with talking foxes, screaming hysterics and – most infamously – scissor-wielding genital mutilation. »

- Mark Kermode

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This week's DVD & Blu-ray releases

1 January 2010 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

District 9

DVD & Blu-ray, Sony

With a price tag roughly one 10th that of Avatar's, Neill Blomkamp's debut is a film only a director with a love of the science-fiction genre. Like Star Wars or Terminator, it sucks up myriad influences and builds on them rather than simply rehashing. So you get flashes of Robocop, Alien Nation, The Fly, Quatermass, etc, but all given a smart updating and a South African twist; much of D9's style is mockumentary, but even this is twisted to give the plot an ambiguous slant. The film begins several years after a massive spaceship apparently breaks down over Johannesburg. Its inhabitants, disgusting-looking but not malevolent creatures, are segregated from human society in the titular shanty town and cruelly referred to as "prawns". Tasked with moving them out to a new internment camp miles away, is weak-willed corporate drone Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley »

- Phelim O'Neill

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