Antichrist (2009)

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Director:

Lars von Trier

Writer:

Lars von Trier

Stars:

Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

19 wins & 15 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Willem Dafoe	...	He
Charlotte Gainsbourg	...	She
Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm	...	Nic

Storyline

A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.

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Plot Keywords:

cabin | nature | woods | cabin in the woods | chapters | 

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Taglines:

When nature turns evil, true terror awaits. (UK)

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Genres:

Drama | Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [jp]

Country:

Denmark Germany France Sweden Italy Poland

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 May 2009 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Anticristo

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$71,397 (USA) (23 October 2009)

Gross:

$397,070 (USA) (11 December 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Köln, Slot Machine

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color Black and White (some scenes)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The aria being sung during the Prologue is called Lascia ch'io pianga from Handel's opera 'Rodelinda'. The libretto translates from the Italian as: Let me weep my cruel fate, and I sigh for liberty. May sorrow break these chains of my sufferings, for pity's sake.

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Goofs

In the prologue as the child is falling, the teddy bear disappears from the side shot as the child is approaching the ground.

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Quotes

He: Acorns don't cry, you know that as well as I do. That's what fear is, thoughts distort reality. Not the other way around.

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Connections

Referenced in Brows Held High: 9 Songs (2012)

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Soundtracks

"'Lascia ch'io pianga' from 'Rinaldo'"
Composed by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)
Performed by Tuva Semmingsen and Barokksolistene

User Reviews

Provoking...

Lars Von Trier is a director who's always been going his own ways, and this can definitely be seen in this movie. Antichrist is a movie that doesn't hold anything back when it comes to gore, and the stuff that you see in the film won't leave your mind the next couple of days. But the movie itself is much more than that... The movie is beautifully shot, the story and setting extremely uncomfortable and the acting is fantastic. The movie is sometime painful to watch, not in a "Saw" or "Hostel" kind of way, but when you leave the theater you feel genuinely uncomfortable, and that is one of the reasons why i liked this movie. It's a movie like nothing i've experienced and I'm glad that we have directors like Lars Von Trier that dares to make a film like this. It's nothing like the mainstream movies that are being made nowadays, and it makes your mind race when you leave the theater, something very few movies does. You aren't served with facts, as with any other movies, but are left to interpret and think for yourself. It's a bizarre movie and not one for the faint of heart, but if you dare to be provoked and see a movie like nothing you've ever seen, then go see Antichrist.