Antichrist (DVD) Reviews

having got this dvd recently, i decided to watch it, despite my uncle who had previously saw it telling me not to bother wasting my time and he had actually turned it off. the film its self seemed like a reasonable horror, however it was difficult to grasp from the start, and i think the sex scenes within the first 5minutes where ...  Read the complete review

An unnamed couple lose their only child while making love when he falls, unnoticed, from a window. Devastated by the death, the woman is hospitalised for some time, unable to cope with her grief. Her lover is a therapist and decides that he is better placed to treat her and forces her to leave hospital. He later decides to take her to a cabin in a ...  Read the complete review

Antichrist is probably the most controversial and divisive film of 2009 thus far, no thanks to Lars von Trier's shameless courting of attention from the mass media, declaring himself to be the greatest filmmaker of all-time among other audacious remarks. Aside from Trier's pomposity, though, the film amounts to more than some graphic nudity and ...  Read the complete review

Comparable in many respects to Pascal Laugier's truly astonishing Martyrs, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist is a film similarly concerned with the place of the female Victim Soul in so much contemporary cultural product, and with the medieval Catholic roots of those ideas. Unlike Martyrs, however, Antichrist is a film made by someone absolutely ...  Read the complete review

I've noticed that many people have already put in some very lengthy and informative reviews for this film, so instead of writing my own equally lengthy opinion and psychoanlysis of Trier's latest venture I am instead going to post my three hundred word summary review originally written for my university paper. This was based on seeing it in the ...  Read the complete review

Lord, save us from the incessant chatter of the art house classes. If you've ever found yourself at a South Bank gallery, or worse, the Royal Festival Hall, on a Friday night, listening to some some pretentious waster in a beret prattle on about mise en scene with his gob full of canapes, then you'll know exactly the sort of filmgoer Antichrist ...  Read the complete review

ANTICHRIST Intro: Lars von Trier, director of Antichrist, has certainly caused a few eyebrows to be raised in the cinematic world. The self-proclaimed best director in the world is renowned by some as a genius, and a pretentious idiot by others. With his latest, and arguably most publicized film yet, von Trier was about to cause ...  Read the complete review

My knowledge of Lars von Trier as a film director is pretty basic. I have only previously seen one of his films, 1998's The Idiots, a highly controversial piece dealing with disability and sexuality, which whilst had its moments, wasn't actually that good a film. I think it's fair to say that von Trier is a director who thrives of controversy; he ...  Read the complete review

It's black and white. A classical soundtrack plays over muted scenes of a couple having sex; at one point his erect penis bounces in and out of her. Juxtaposed with this are scenes of their child, a mere toddler, casually opening the stairgate and approaching the window, falling to his death. And so begins Antichrist, the most painful film I've ...  Read the complete review