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Antichrist

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Antichrist (2009)
Antichrist Final Trailer - A grieving couple retreats 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
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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.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.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
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    131K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,057
    16
    • Director
      • Lars von Trier
    • Writer
      • Lars von Trier
    • Stars
      • Willem Dafoe
      • Charlotte Gainsbourg
      • Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
    • 553User reviews
    • 389Critic reviews
    • 49Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 21 wins & 33 nominations

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    Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist (2009)
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    Willem Dafoe in Antichrist (2009)
    Willem Dafoe in Antichrist (2009)
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist (2009)
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist (2009)
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist (2009)
    Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist (2009)
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    Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
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    • Director
      • Lars von Trier
    • Writer
      • Lars von Trier
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The Sound Engineer actually swallowed a microphone and recorded the inner audio of his body in order to achieve certain similar sounds for the film.
    • Goofs
      During the prologue, there is shot of a foot knock over a bottle from the far end of the bed. In a later shot, the same bottle is rolling on the bedside as He and She have sex.
    • Quotes

      Fox: Chaos reigns.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2009 (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      'Lascia ch'io pianga' from 'Rinaldo'
      Composed by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)

      Performed by Tuva Semmingsen and Barokksolistene

    User reviews553

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    Contagious Brokenness
    Down the road from me is a coven of Christian filmmakers. It is a school and the purpose is to make films that evangelize. This fascinates me; generally their stories are about fighting the devil, a narrative that encompasses both what is in the film and what surrounds the making of the film. Some day, they might make engaging films and who knows what will happen.

    This interests me because most movies are made by professional storytellers. Scorcese and Fincher (for example) not only makes a wide variety of stories, but they deliberately do so. The connection with their lives is — with few exceptions — with the art. Most singers are this way as well. Connected with this is films that have a love story that features a woman the male filmmaker is in love with. This often grabs me.

    Now here we have a man deeply depressed, possessed. He makes a film painfully pulled from his soul, so difficult in the making that he is suicidal. It works. It is so deeply disturbing that I caution you to stay away from it. I was a bit vulnerable when encountering this world and it affected me.

    Lars von Trier has built a life making films that exploit experiments in convention. I find them interesting, but there is always an academic distance that keeps them from connecting. They engage for how they are made, not what they are. At each juncture, I wonder how powerful a film might be if he used what he knows to communicate, rather than to practice. Now I know. He was so depressed he simply made. Looking at the usual areas where he is disciplined, you can see he is sloppy. Everything is imprecise. There is no theory at work here. Where it is technically competent, it is only temporarily so. That is what makes it so, so very powerful. His gush of expression floods past his constraints of Danish discipline.

    The story is identical to "Don't Look Now." We as viewers think we see a child lost, and follow a couple in a grief that swallows them. But we see it from the husband's untrusted eye. He is confused, haunted, magically twisted through the sexual magic he and we see but which permeates and guides the narrative. This is a tornado of witchcraft, like the Roeg film, but from a filmmaker within it. Causal mechanics are not what we think we know from the beginning. The shoes are reversed. I do not know from outside sources what caused his depression, but it is pretty clear from this desperate message from within.

    There are some pretty powerful images here. Some involve genitals, an ordinarily off-limits zone. Some involve a graceful death of an infant, made more terrifying by the beauty in which we receive it. Some involve damaged animals. Each of these is amplified by the rush of emotional confusion, the onanistic waterfall of acorns on the tin roof. Experience this at your peril.

    The actors are incredible.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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    • Jan 22, 2011

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    • Release date
      • May 20, 2009 (Denmark)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • Germany
      • France
      • Sweden
      • Italy
      • Poland
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Антихрист
    • Filming locations
      • Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Zentropa Entertainments
      • Zentropa International Köln
      • Slot Machine
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $11,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $404,122
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $71,397
      • Oct 25, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,413,863
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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