A grieving couple 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…--©Official Site
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Channel 4 Film
Anton Bitel
"A beautiful battery of depraved images and irrational associations, Lars Von Trier's two-handed essay in horror is as distracting and deadening as depression itself."
26/07/2009
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Empire Magazine
Kim Newman
"A star rating is not much help, since von Trier’s self-conscious arrogance is calculated to split audiences into extremist factions, but Antichrist delivers enough beauty, terror and wonder to qualify as the strangest and most original horror movie of the year."
26/07/2009
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
"Antichrist is a fairground ride through the brain of a genius, both nightmarish and apocalyptic. Trier’s head is the most dangerous place in modern cinema, its multiple caverns mysteriously structured and weirdly laid out. Here is the Wellesian Gothic chamber (Europa); here is the Brechtian Basilica (Dogville) and here is the Grotto of Utter Lunacy, enshrining musicals about capital punishment starring Björk (Dancer in the Dark)."
22/07/2009
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The Daily Telegraph
Sukhdev Sandhu
"This is von Trier’s biggest accomplishment. He has created a world that is true to its own ghastly, shifting logic. It’s a world that paints a bleak, violent and to some eyes misogynistic portrait of the relationship between men and women."
23/07/2009
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Time Out
Dave Calhoun
"A troubling but refreshing sense of an artist uncloaked. A violent conflict of ideas and images. A certainty that von Trier loathes therapists. A suggestion that a man can do his worst to a woman and still come across as a messiah. But any logical, unified theory? Any neat conclusions? Any satisfaction from loose ends tied and questions answered? Forget it. It’s just not that sort of film."
23/07/2009
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The Times
Kevin Maher
"For this, essentially, is a snapshot of the Danish director’s Id taken, allegedly, during one of his darkest depressions. And as such it seems to offer the viewer a fundamental creative choice. We can scoff and dismiss it as the last gasp ravings of a deranged opportunist. Or we can look, unflinchingly, at Von Trier’s fantastically painful mirror and acknowledge the Id within us all. Now that is scary."
23/07/2009
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The Scotsman
Siobhan Synnot
"Fans of lurid gruesomeness will be bored by the film's pretentiousness, while anyone seeking intellectual cinematic stimulation will be repelled by Von Trier's childish attempt to terrorise us. The bad vibes can't be contained within Antichrist; it is cinema as napalm, burning up everything."
19/07/2009
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Variety
Todd McCarthy
"Lars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with "Antichrist." As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images that might have impressed even Hieronymus Bosch, as the director pursues personal demons of sexual, religious and esoteric bodily harm, as well as feelings about women that must be a comfort to those closest to him."
17/05/2009
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Total Film
Jamie Graham
"Catcalled at Cannes, this thoroughly pretentious offering is more childish and terrible than enfant terrible. The most startling – and boring – film you’ll see this year."
23/06/2009
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