![]() How pretentious is Antichrist? Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play a married couple identified as He and She, who speak wistfully of their cabin retreat called Eden. Were Antichrist a piece of hackwork, so to speak, it'd be easy to dismiss. An instantly notorious award-winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Antichrist proves to be an alternately draggy, repellant and opaque cinematic experience, while clearly representing devoted efforts from several master screen artists. ![]() Lars von Trier’s Antichrist eventually reveals how unguarded genitalia hold up against carpentry utensils, but without the justification of Sick’s humanism or thematic clarity. Nevertheless, the close-up atrocity summed up the obsessions and life experiences of a self-punishing performance artist with a fatal case of cystic fibrosis and a surprisingly tender marriage. I can’t even truly say I saw more than brief glimpses before I averted my eyes, as if confronted by a solar eclipse. ![]() I can't truly say I enjoyed watching a man nail his penis to a wooden board in the 1997 documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. ![]()
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