Antichrist
Ends Thu, Nov 5!
Mon, Nov 2—Thu, Nov 5 at 4:30, 6:40, 9:10pm
Directed by Lars von Trier
With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
(NR), 104min
"A powerfully made film. The performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless. Von Trier's visual command is striking. And if you can think beyond what he shows to what he implies, its depths are frightening... Von Trier has reached me and shaken me." —Roger Ebert
One of most celebrated filmmakers of our time, Lars Von Trier is back with the beautiful, terrifying, and altogether engrossing Antichrist. The talk of 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where star Charlotte Gainsbourg took home the award for Best Actress, the full, unedited version of this eagerly-awaited film promises to captivate audiences this fall.
A grieving couple (two-time Oscar-Nominee Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) 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…
Synopsis courtesy of IFC Films.
Roger Ebert on Antichrist
"Von Trier, who has always been a provocateur, is driven to confront and shake his audience more than any other serious filmmaker—even Bunuel and Herzog." More
Salon on Antichrist
"It offers more proof, if we need any, that von Trier is one of the most accomplished cinema artists of our time, and also perhaps the most deeply trapped in his own head." More