Antichrist

Call it the sickest film ever made, or the masterpiece of a wicked genius, von Trier’s confrontational psychodrama succeeded in scandalising Cannes and left its mark in the history of cinema. Grief-stricken by the death of their infant son during their ecstatic lovemaking, the tormented couple takes refuge in the woods, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature. Sequences of Tarkovsky-esque eerie beauty, compounded by explicit sex and horrific scenes of genital mutilation, pave an emotionally devastating journey to the heart of darkness, linking the grisly fascination of medieval witch hunts and superstitions of misogyny with a modern interpretation of the disturbing battles of the sexes.

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