Trailer for Lars Von Triers Antichrist

[nite-owl]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/13/lars-von-triers-antichrist-movie-trailer/

I'll see anything Lars directs, I just wish they had went with the original idea for the movie.

 

[Rac]

Had to watch it without sound (no speakers here at work), but Von Trier is enough to get me in theaters.

What was the original idea?

 

[nite-owl]

I've made a mistake I heard they were going to change the orignal idea but apparantley they've went back to it. I'll put it in spoiler tags not to spoil it for anyone.

Spoiler

The idea was what if the Devil had populated the earth and not God

 

[Rac]

Cool! I'm more excited for this now.

 

[nite-owl]

First Review.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39631

 

[Octoberist]

I've always had a crush on Charlotte and I hope she gets naked. Willem Dafoe..not much. I'm sure we'll see his arse throughout the entire movie.

 

[nite-owl]

Off-topic question Octoberist do you post on slashfilm?

 

[Octoberist]

yes i do! what's your sc over there?

 

[Figs]

Just curious as to why this is named Antichrist?
EDIT: Nevermind, I'm pretty sure I figured it out.

 

[nite-owl]

yes i do! what's your sc over there?

I haven't signed up yet I'll probabley just use the sameone I use on here.

 

[Octoberist]

not too be too off topic, but slash film is probably one of the best movie websites out there (and superherohype/comingsoon)

 

[Rac]

Watched the trailer with sound now. Intense!

 

[nite-owl]

not too be too off topic, but slash film is probably one of the best movie websites out there (and superherohype/comingsoon)

Here, slash film and joblo/the arrow are the only movie sites I go on.

 

[nite-owl]

New Trailer.

http://dk.filmtrailer.com/cinema/2023/Antichrist.html

 

[Galactus]

Anti-Christ
Danish director Lars von Trier's psychological thriller follows a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who've lost their child and go to an isolated cabin to recover. What follows has become the most talked about and controversial film of the festival so far:

"Jeers and laughter broke out during scenes ranging from a talking fox to graphically-portrayed sexual mutilation" says Reuters reporting from the screening, who added that "derisive laughter, gasps of disbelief, a smattering of applause and loud boos" were elicited during the credits.

Roger Ebert says "whether this is a bad, good or great film is entirely beside the point. It is an audacious spit in the eye of society" and is ultimately "the most despairing film I've ever have seen...Von Trier has made a film that is not boring. Unendurable, perhaps, but not boring."

Jeff Wells from Hollywood Elsewhere calls it "easily one of the biggest debacles in Cannes Film Festival history and the complete meltdown of a major film artist". He adds that "It's an out-and-out disaster -- one of the most absurdly on-the-nose, heavy-handed and unintentionally comedic calamities I've ever seen in my life" and other critics were "howling, hooting, shrieking" during the screening.

Austin 360 says "the movie’s violence has an emotional impact that hasn’t been seen since Gaspar Noe's 'Irreversible'...because you care about the characters, long before the violence comes." The violence itself "would qualify for the one of the hardest NC-17 ratings ever".

"While there’s no doubt that the place he goes is off a precipitous edge, one can’t deny the film’s continuing primal power" says Indiewire, with the excessiveness mostly due to an "instance of body mutilation that will turn off the most tolerant viewer".

Finally Variety says the helmer "cuts a big fat art-film fart" that seems to be "deliberately courting critical abuse". However "the blood-smeared sensationalism smothers what serious thoughts the script serves up in passing" while the various sex scenes "detract from the film by playing peek-a-boo".

 

[That-Guy]

Uh...


I must see this movie. Just so I can grasp why the hell they had these reacitons to it.

 

[Rac]

Not reading that till I've seen the film. 5th of June is the Finnish release date.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Great article that makes me want to see it even more: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/05/a_devils_advocate_for_antichri.html

Von Trier is one of the most courageous and uncompromising directors in all of cinema, and I have unbounded respect for Dafoe and Gainsbourg for taking on this movie. They're taking a risk on the same level as Emily Watson when she chose to star in Breaking the Waves, and my respect for her is also unbounded. I can't wait to see this film, but unfortunately it might be quite a while (a year or maybe more) before it gets released in the U.S.

 

[Heretic]

I've always had a crush on Charlotte and I hope she gets naked. Willem Dafoe..not much. I'm sure we'll see his arse throughout the entire movie.

I dont know anything about the girl, but if I recall they posted some candid naked pics of her on the beach in the past day or so over at What Would Tyler Durden Do.

 

[War Party]

I loved Charlotte in "The Science of Sleep." Looking forward to seeing her in this film. And I just watched "Breaking the Waves" last night and it was such an emotionally exhausting film. Fantastic performances. I couldn't imagine what "Antichrist" will be like.

 

[Galactus]

It's soon released in Sweden, and so far the reviewers here haven't been kind to this movie. It looks like it is an extremely violent and gory movie. Movies like Saw are supposed to be nothing to this.

 

[Galactus]

Antichrist catholic version
The Zentropa film company is planning a censored version of Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’ for more sensitive markets.

Markets such as the United States, Southern Europe and Asia will be able to buy what is being termed a ‘catholic’ version of the Danish film-maker Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’, according to Berlingske Tidende.

The controversial film, which was presented this week at the Cannes Film Festival, has divided film critics, and not least those prepared to buy the production.

“Some just hate the film, others think it is fantastic. There is major interest, but there are also some of our normal distributors who have said that they can’t use Antichrist at all,” says Rikke Ennis of Trustnordisk, which is selling the film on the international market.

Threshold
Following the Cannes Film Fetsival, Zentropa is to produce a censored version of Antichrist for markets in the United States, Southern Europe and Asia.

“We will produce a catholic version for the more prudish markets in order to fulfill censorship requirements. We don’t know yet which scenes will be removed. We will consult with distributors to find the pain threshold. In the United States, you can’t even show a frontal of a naked man with a flaccid one,” Zentropa CEO Peter Aalbæk Jensen tells Berlingske.dk.

He also sees television stations buying the censored version so that Antichrist – which begins with a pornographic penetration scene, will not have to be shown after midnight.

 

[Rac]

Damn. I hope Finland doesn't get the christ*** version.

It's opening here next week, so maybe (hopefully) it's too late to even worry such things.

 

[Rac]

I happened to see this at a film festival last weekend.

I was kinda expecting more, but I did like it. If this wasn't an von Trier film you could use the phrase "Jesus, what weird ****ing film", but as this is, you can't. This is definitely an "art horror" film.

What comes to all those horrific things that the Cannes audience found shocking or ****, well, it's a horror film! 80-90% of horror films contain gore and brutality towards the human flesh. That's here too. But I mean, it's good you know, I don't remember what was the last time I had to peek during scenes like these. I was like that 12-year old kid watching Hellraiser again. Nicely done, Mr. von Trier.

3½ out of 5.

 

[That-Guy]

I hope that the uncensored version of this makes its way to the U.S. I really don't want to see some stupid watered down version.