A grieving couple retreats to a lonely cabin in the woods after the death of their son. She struggles with depression caused by grief and feelings of guilt. He is a psychiatrist and wants to give her therapy, out in the woods, but she is very afraid. Soon he realizes that there is much more behind his wife's behavior, and both of them fall into a spiral of sex and violence in the seclusion of the cabin. Lars von Trier's ANTICHRIST is a deeply disturbing trip into human abysses and fears. With sometimes beautiful and surreal, and other times drastic images, von Trier succeeds in both deeply moving and shocking the viewer. "ANTICHRIST speaks a language that is enormously emancipatory and ties into a tradition of feminism that goes back over a hundred years. For all the mythic and mystical elements of the film, the texture speaks the clear language of revolution." (The Film Analysis)
Drama, Horror
1h 44min
18 FSK
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A grieving couple retreats to a lonely cabin in the woods after the death of their son. She struggles with depression caused by grief and feelings of guilt. He is a psychiatrist and wants to give her therapy, out in the woods, but she is very afraid. Soon he realizes that there is much more behind his wife's behavior, and both of them fall into a spiral of sex and violence in the seclusion of the cabin.
Lars von Trier's ANTICHRIST is a deeply disturbing trip into human abysses and fears. With sometimes beautiful and surreal, and other times drastic images, von Trier succeeds in both deeply moving and shocking the viewer.
"ANTICHRIST speaks a language that is enormously emancipatory and ties into a tradition of feminism that goes back over a hundred years. For all the mythic and mystical elements of the film, the texture speaks the clear language of revolution." (The Film Analysis)