![]() ![]() Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with sex scenes on film even the ones where things get explicit. I’m speaking, of course, of the lead actors’ genitals. ![]() That said, I wondered if much of the most controversial content in “Antichrist” was an artist coping with those demons, doing what he felt was necessary to engage his audience or breaking through the cultural noise to get his work noticed in the first place. It would be rewarding to see him able to do that without being distracted by the demons he’s been fighting. This is an enormously talented artist capable of powerful and challenging work. "Grotesque masterpiece” or "offensively misogynistic" - which ad blurb will sell more tickets? Would including rusty scissors with the Deluxe DVD pack be too much?Īfter mulling over my own reaction to the film, which was far from positive, I think I’m just happy that Von Trier is finally getting professional help for the severe depression that apparently plagued him to a debilitating level through production. A couple of weeks ago, I had the misfortune of being invited to a screening of Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist”, the film that “scandalized” Cannes, opened the “serious film” section of the Toronto International Film Festival and is now the hot topic of debate at the far more intellectual New York Film Festival. ![]()
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