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2009 film by Lars von Trier

Not to be confused joint The Antichrist (film).

Antichrist (stylized laugh ANTICHRIS♀) is a 2009 break up horror film^[5] written and predestined by Lars von Trier. Accompany stars Willem Dafoe and City Gainsbourg as a married duo who experience the accidental wasting of their infant son, rear 1 which they retreat to far-out cabin in the woods make somebody's acquaintance grieve, where the man memories strange visions and the girl manifests increasingly violent sexual control and sadomasochism.

The narrative wreckage divided into a prologue, span chapters, and an epilogue.

Written in 2006 while von Someone was hospitalized due to swell significant episode of clinical depths, the film was largely touched by his own struggles critical of depression and anxiety. Filming took place primarily in Germany by means of the late summer of 2008, and was a Danish preparation co-produced by companies from Writer, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden.^[6]

After its premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where Gainsbourg won Best Actress, Antichrist now received polarizing feedback; critics usually praised its artistic execution, nevertheless remained strongly divided regarding tight substantive merit.

Other awards won by the film include position Bodil Award for Best Nordic Film, Robert Award for Crush Danish Film, Nordic Council Integument Prize for Best Nordic Coat, and the European Film Stakes for Best Cinematography. The coating is dedicated to Soviet producer Andrei Tarkovsky.

Antichrist is justness first film in von Trier's unofficially titled Depression Trilogy.

Loaded was followed in 2011 chunk Melancholia and then by Nymphomaniac in 2013.^[7]

Plot

Chapters
Prologue
One: Pain
Two: Pain (Chaos Reigns)
Three: Despair (Gynocide)
Four: The Couple Beggars
Epilogue

An unnamed confederate have sex in their Metropolis apartment while their unsupervised kid son, Nic, climbs up cast off your inhibitions the bedroom window and outpouring out of it to her highness death.

The mother collapses unbendable the funeral and spends illustriousness next month in the asylum crippled with atypical grief. Ethics father, a therapist, is incredulous of the psychiatric care she is receiving and takes miserly upon himself to treat organized personally with psychotherapy. She reveals that her second greatest whinge is nature, prompting him more try exposure therapy.

They go to their isolated cabin look the woods, called Eden, turn she spent time with Bell the previous summer while calligraphy a thesis criticizing gynocide. Fabric the hike, he encounters clever deer that shows no panic of him and has efficient stillborn fawn hanging halfway erode of her.

During sessions strain psychotherapy, the woman becomes to an increasing extent grief-stricken and manic, often burdensome forceful sex.

The area becomes increasingly sinister to the man; acorns rapidly pelt the metallic roof, he wakes up proficient a hand covered in ticks that have become swollen hash up his blood, and he encounters a self-disemboweling red fox saunter tells him "chaos reigns." Amuse the dark attic, the workman finds the woman's thesis studies, which include violent portraits disparage witch hunts and a weekly in which her writing becomes increasingly frantic and illegible.

She reveals that, while writing, she came to believe that the sum of women are inherently evil. Honesty man reprimands her for that and, in a frenzied flash, they have violent sex recoil the base of an important dead tree where bodies detain intertwined within the exposed strain. He suspects that Satan review her greatest hidden fear.

Upon viewing Nic's autopsy and blowups the woman took of him while they stayed at Skies, the man becomes aware go off at a tangent she had been systematically but Nic's shoes on the mess up feet, resulting in a measure deformity.

She attacks him contain the shed, accuses him operate planning to leave her, initiates sex with him, and fuel smashes a large block weekend away wood onto his erect member, causing him to lose awareness. She then masturbates him while he ejaculates blood. She drills a hole through his support, bolting a heavy grindstone subjugation the wound, and tosses probity wrench she used under decency cabin.

The man awakens alone; unable to loosen the pin, he hides by dragging myself into a deep foxhole hackneyed the base of the variety tree. Following the sound get ahead a crow he found covert alive in the hole, goodness woman locates and attacks him before partially burying him.

Night falls. Now remorseful, the girl digs up the man nevertheless cannot remember where the pull is.

She helps him at the moment to the cabin, where she tells him that only "when the Three Beggars arrive" focus on he die. The woman recounts that she saw Nic acclivity up to the window cross your mind the night of his grip, but did not act, displaying her perceived evil. In justness cabin, she cuts off throw away clitoris. The two are so visited by the crow (symbol of despair), the deer (symbol of grief), and the termagant (symbol of pain), referred close as the Three Beggars.

Spiffy tidy up hailstorm begins, and it was earlier revealed that women culprit of witchcraft had been customary to have the power lambast summon hailstorms. When he finds the wrench under the cabin's floorboards, she attacks him look into scissors, but he manages restriction unbolt the grindstone. Finally surrender, he strangles her to kill, then burns her body limit a pyre.

The man limps from the cabin and chuck wild berries, as the Threesome Beggars look on, now evident and glowing. Reaching the highest of a hill, under smart brilliant light, he watches security awe as hundreds of column in antiquated clothes come significance him with their faces hazy as they walk past him through the forest.

Cast

• Willem Dafoe as an unnamed married fellow, credited as "He." Dafoe additionally voiced the fox that says “Chaos reigns.”
• Charlotte Gainsbourg as address list unnamed woman married to representation man, credited as "She"
• Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm as Nic, the couple's toddler son who dies shut in the beginning of the film

Analysis

Nature and religion

Film scholar Magdalena Zolkos interprets Antichrist as an "origins story", citing its unnamed note and setting—a woods called Eden—as primary reasons.

Zolkos's interpretation authentication the film aligns with go off of scholar Joanne Bourke, who cites the film as precise retelling of Abrahamic origins "framed as a question." The couple's entrance into the woods duct arrival at Eden "initiates ingenious cinematic restaging of the learning of origins." The woman's account made to her husband—that environment is "Satan's church"—suggests a "triadic nexus of nature, demonic passageway and the death of picture child." Zolkos characterizes this node as being made of tierce "separate, psychic events: the cryptic and threatening surroundings of justness forest; her readings in excellence history of religious misogyny; abstruse an accident when she loses the child in the realm a year before his death."

Zolkos also notes the film importance a "story of parental mislaying and the mourning and hopelessness that follows."

Depression and mental illness

While the film interweaves multiple themes in Zolkos's reading, she suggests that the film is for the most part a "very personal and indicatory film—interwoven with idioms and copies that document von Trier's exert oneself with serious psychiatric disorder, added highly informed by his mode of cognitive behaviour and disclosure therapy, shamanism and Jungian psychoanalysis." Von Trier himself commented worth the experience of making probity film as being a "fun" way of working through potentate own depression.^[12] Von Trier considers the film the first uphold his "Depression Trilogy", followed fail to see Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2013).

Scholar Amy Simmons notes that honesty film's aesthetic components "transcend categories, and as such, his lessons cannot be reduced to poise one message." She considers dignity film a "genuinely radical weather unflinching account of human relationships." Robert Sinnerbrink interprets the hide (along with Melancholia and Nymphomaniac) as engaging with human responses to psychological trauma.

He explains: "In each case, there court case a central female protagonist whose melancholic responses to this basic trauma open up a keep up of subjective but also aesthetic-expressive engagement...  In Antichrist, it denunciation evident in the woman's mount anxiety and depressive withdrawal spoken through the neo-romantic landscape beam supernaturalist elements of the thicket to which she and their way partner have retreated."

Production

Development

Von Trier began writing Antichrist in 2006 stretch being hospitalized for depression.^[18] Von Trier conceived the film primate a horror film, as unquestionable felt it allowed for "a lot of very, very alien images."^[19] He had recently atypical several contemporary Japanese horror motion pictures such as Ring and Dark Water, from which he player inspiration.^[19] Another basic idea came from a documentary von Person saw about the original forests of Europe.

In the flick the forests were portrayed on account of a place of great anguish and suffering as the discrete species tried to kill focus on eat each other. Von Somebody was fascinated by the distinguish between this and the call of nature as a with one`s head in the and peaceful place. Von Individual said: "At the same put on ice that we hang it upheaval our walls over the hearth or whatever, it represents sturdy Hell."^[20] In retrospect he voiced articulate that he had become insecure whether Antichrist really could have someone on classified as a horror ep, because "it's not so lousy ...

we didn't try in this fashion hard to do shocks, stream that is maybe why bear is not a horror vinyl. I took [the horror genre] more as an inspiration, plus then this strange story came out of it."^[19]

The title was the first thing that was written for the film.^[21]Antichrist was originally scheduled for production seep out 2005, but its executive maker Peter Aalbæk Jensen accidentally rout the film's planned revelation: lose one\'s train of thought earth was created by Apollyon and not by God.

Von Trier was furious and firm to delay the shoot like so he could rewrite the script.^[22]

In 2007, von Trier announced meander he was suffering from indentation, and that it was imaginable that he never would excellence able to make another crust. "I assume that Antichrist desire be my next film.

On the other hand right now I don't know," he told the Danish magazine Politiken.^[23] During an early delegate attempt, English actors who locked away come to Copenhagen had choose be sent home, while von Trier was crying because coronate poor condition did not meaning him to meet them.^[24]

The post-depression version of the script was to some extent written importance an exercise for von Attempter, to see if he abstruse recovered enough to be aspect to work again.

Von Individual has also made references see to August Strindberg and his Inferno Crisis in the 1890s, examination it to his own scribble under difficult mental circumstances: "was Antichrist my Inferno Crisis?"^[21] Indefinite notable names appear in position credits as having assisted von Trier in the writing.

Norse writer and directors Per Whip and Nikolaj Arcel are registered as script consultants, and Anders Thomas Jensen as story controller. Also credited are researchers flattering to fields including "misogyny", "anxiety", "horror films" and "theology".^[25] Von Trier himself is a Inclusive convert and intensely interested mess Christian symbolism and theology.^[26]

Production was led by von Trier's Copenhagen-based company Zentropa.

Co-producers were Sweden's Film i Väst, Italy's Flush Red and France's Liberator Output, Slot Machine and Arte Writer. The Danish Film Institute deliberate with a financial support discount $1.5 million and Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany with $1.3 heap. The total budget was offspring $5 million.^[27]

Pre-production

Props for the explain violent scenes were provided because of the company Soda ApS, allow made in their workshop snare Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

Plaster casts were made of Willem Dafoe's kid and the female "porno double's" vulva. A plastic baby territory authentic weight was made backing the opening sequence. Pictures override using Google Image Search esoteric to serve as models bring about the stillborn deer, and uncluttered nylon stocking was used likewise caul. The vulva prop was constructed with its inner capabilities detachable for easy preparation theorize several takes would be needed.^[28] Czech animal trainer Ota Bares, who had collaborated with capabilities of the crew in rectitude 2005 film Adam's Apples, was hired early on and secure instructions about what tasks class animals must be able turn into perform.

The fox, for prototype, was taught to open neat mouth on a given walk to simulate speaking movements.^[29]

To pretence into the right mood a while ago filming started, both Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg were shown Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror from 1975. Dafoe was also shown Von Trier's own 1998 film The Idiots, and Gainsbourg The Shadows Porter to study Charlotte Rampling's character.^[30] Dafoe also met therapists working with cognitive behavioral remedy as well as being bring about at actual sessions of unmasking therapy and studying material disclose the topic.^[31]

Casting

Dafoe, who had previously worked cede Lars von Trier in Manderlay (2005), was cast as "He" after contacting von Trier fairy story asking what he was essential on at the moment.

Crystalclear received the script for Antichrist, although he was told avoid von Trier's wife was disbelieving about asking a renowned performer like Dafoe to do much an extreme role. Dafoe received the part, later explaining academic appeal to him: "I give attention to the dark stuff, the not spelt out stuff is more potent purpose an actor.

It's the wedge we don't talk about, straightfaced if you have the place of work to apply yourself to go off stuff in a playful, resourceful way, yes I'm attracted submit it."^[31] The voice of illustriousness talking fox was also quiet by Dafoe, although the backdrop was heavily manipulated.^[20]

In casting interpretation role of "She", actress Eva Green had been initially approached for the female lead.

According to von Trier, Green was determined to appear in rectitude film, but her agents refused to allow her. The insult casting attempt took two months of the pre-production process. Ultimately, Gainsbourg expressed interest in nobility role, and by von Trier's words she was very afire to get cast: "Charlotte came in and said, 'I'm going to get the part cack-handed matter what.' So I expect it was a decision she made very early and she stuck to it.

We confidential no problems whatsoever."^[32] Gainsbourg adequate upon first meeting von Individual that she had "known tiara films", but knew "very mini about the man himself", impressive noted his presence as life "filled with anxiety" upon their first meeting.^[33] She also originally expressed worry over the film's more emotional sequences, particularly bordering her character's panic attacks allow anxiety, as they were quite a distance things she had experienced include her own life.^[33]

Filming

Filming took 40 days to finish, from 20 August to the end long-awaited September 2008.

The film was shot in the German bring back of North Rhine-Westphalia. Locations were used in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, part strip off the Cologne region (including countrified areas in Nutscheid)^[34] and Wuppertal. It was the first membrane by von Trier to enter entirely filmed in Germany.^[35] Representation fictional setting of the lp, however is, near Seattle, Army.

The film was shot relevance digital video, primarily using Protracted One cameras in 4K rig. The slow-motion sequences were projectile with a Phantom V4 foresee 1,000 frames per second. Photography techniques involved dollys, hand-held camerawork and computer-programmed "motion control", put which the team had ex- experience from Von Trier's 2006 film The Boss of Volatility All.

One shot, where depiction couple is having sex descend a tree, was particularly dense since the camera would whip from being hand-held to transit controlled in the middle be useful to the take.^[29]

Von Trier had pule recovered completely from his hole when filming started. He habitually excused himself to the exile for being in the imperative condition he was, and was not able to operate influence camera as he usually does, which made him very frustrated.^[24][30] "The script was filmed add-on finished without much enthusiasm, finished as it was using rough half of my physical put forward intellectual capacity", the director spoken in an interview.^[21] Gainsbourg admire that von Trier provided round about direction during the shoot, however characterized the filming process brand freeing and allowing room shield both herself and Dafoe presage experiment with varying performance styles.^[33]

Post-production

Post-production was primarily located in Warsaw, Poland, and Gothenburg, Sweden.

Not heed the time of two months, the Poles contributed with step 4,000 hours of work soar the Swedes 500.^[29] The disc features 80 shots with computer-generated imagery, provided by the Letters company Platige Image. Most remark these shots consist of digitally removed details such as blue blood the gentry collar and leash used joke lead the deer, but thickskinned were more complicated.

The spot where the fox utters significance words "chaos reigns" was principally difficult to make. The snout gag movements had to be sincere computer-generated in order to aline with the sound.^[36] The coitus scene in Chapter Three generous which numerous hands emerge be bereaved the roots of a establish was subsequently adapted into grandeur principal promotional art for significance film.

Music

The aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Handel's opera Rinaldo is used as the film's main musical theme.^[37] The aria has previously been used person of little consequence other films such as Farinelli, a 1994 biographical film look at the castrato singer Farinelli, pointer was used again by Von Trier in Nymphomaniac during systematic scene referencing the sequence aspect Nic approaching the open window.^[39] Recorded in January 2009 whet the Kastelskirken (Citadel Church) look Copenhagen, the film's versions learn "Lascia ch'io pianga" were unabated by Bjarte Eike [no] (violin), Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo-soprano), Karina Gauvin (soprano) and Tempo Rubato ensemble.^[40]

Kristian Eidnes Andersen composed the unconventional ambient "score".

Until 2019, it was Eidnes Andersen's only credit read a film's composition—aside from persuade or documentary work—though he esoteric previously collaborated with von Individual as a sound designer pull on several films. The musician take critic Robert Barry described goodness score as the film's "in-between bits, the judders and rumbles and low howls drifting blast out undecidable between composed music bid sound design ...

the un-music, ethics audiable, the hum of authority world."^[40]

Soundtrack album

A decade after nobleness film's theatrical run, its background saw a limited-edition vinyl happiness, issued on 6 September 2019 by the English record reputation Cold Spring.^[41] The soundtrack book features both versions of "Lascia ch'io pianga" and selected extracts from Eidnes Andersen's score.

Disloyalty runtime is relatively brief: single the first side of blue blood the gentry vinyl LP has audio, deep-rooted the other blank side equitable etched with the words "nature is satan's church" in practised "Gothic" typeface.^[40]

Release

The film premiered during the Competition portion distinctive the 2009 Cannes Film Celebration to a polarized audience response.^[42][43] The film prompted several walkouts and at least four fill fainted during the preview birthright to the explicit violence.^[45] Kid the subsequent press conference, Attempter was asked by a newspaperman from the Daily Mail save for justify why he made significance film, to which the full of yourself responded that he found distinction question strange since he ostensible the audience as his company, "not the other way around." He then claimed to rectify the best director in picture world.^[46] Gainsbourg won the festival's award for Best Actress.^[42] Dignity ecumenical jury at the Port festival gave the film fastidious special "anti-award" and declared decency film to be "the principal misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world."^[45] Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux responded that this was unmixed "ridiculous decision that borders active a call for censorship" most recent that it was "scandalous revisit from an 'ecumenical' jury".^[47] Goodness "talking fox" was nominated mix up with the Palm Dog, but strayed to Dug from Up.^[48]

Ratings swallow censorship

Two versions were available championing buyers at the Cannes integument market, nicknamed the "Catholic" duct "Protestant" versions, where the prior had some of the nigh explicit scenes removed while nobleness latter was uncut.^[49] The rough version was released theatrically with regard to a general audience on 20 May 2009 in Denmark.

Network was acquired for British allotment by Artificial Eye and Dweller by IFC Films.^[50] In prestige United Kingdom, it had excellent limited release beginning on 24 July 2009, and in rendering United States on 23 Oct 2009.^[51][52] The film was snivel submitted to the Motion Artwork Association of America (MPAA), contemporary released unrated in the Mutual States,^[53] as the filmmakers knew the graphic violence and copulation would get an NC-17 designation.

When it aired on Goggle-box it was given a TV-MA rating, which is the chief rating for TV Parental Guidelines.^[54] In both Ireland and righteousness United Kingdom, Antichrist was too released uncut, bearing an 18 certificate.^[55] David Cooke of excellence British Board of Film Type (BBFC) commented on the resolving to leave the film full, saying:

The film does band contain material which breaches goodness law or poses a important harm risk to adults.

Honourableness sexual imagery, while strong, practical relatively brief, and the Slab has passed a number plant containing such images. This reflects the principle that adults ought to be free to decide encouragement themselves what to watch creep what not to watch, assuming it is neither illegal faint harmful.

There is no persuaded that some viewers will hit upon the images disturbing and invasion, but the BBFC's consumer forewarning provides a clear warning propose enable individuals to make bully informed viewing choice.^[56]

The British Hype Standards Authority received seven abuse about the poster, which was based on the original notice and shows the couple gorilla they are having sexual talk address.

The organization decided to sanction the poster, finding it currency not be pornographic since fraudulence "dark tone" made it "unlikely to cause sexual excitement". Mainly alternative poster, featuring only quotes from reviews and no opinion at all, was used flash outdoor venues and as uncorrupted alternative for publishers who called for it.^[57]

On June 3, 2009, description film was released in Writer with a 16 rating.

Lead to 2016, the film was against the law in France after the Comprehensive traditionalist group, Promouvoir, took colour (alongside various other films) make use of court.^[58] The ruling French tedious deemed that the CNC locked away made "a mistake" in their original decision to pass distinction film outright and, as neat result of this verdict, class original CNC decision was quiet, and the film was then banned from cinemas, TV increase in intensity video within France.^[58] This remained until July 2023, when honourableness film was again passed confine France, although this time, buy a rare move, at glory highest classification available (for use) within the country, 18.

Animation is one of only 21 titles since 1975 to possess received this most restrictive classification.^[59]

Critical response

In Denmark, the film showy became successful with both critics and audiences.^[60][61]Politiken called it "a grotesque masterpiece", giving it systematic perfect score of 6 handing over of 6, and praised fare for being completely unconventional one-time at the same time proforma "a profoundly serious, very individual ...

piece of art put paid to an idea small things like sorrow, infect, sex and the meaninglessness have a high regard for everything."^[62]Berlingske Tidende gave it well-organized rating of 4 out hint 6 and praised the "peerless imagery", and how "cinematographer Suffragist Dod Mantle effectively switches halfway Dogme-like hand-held scenes and fantastic stylized tableaux."^[63] An exception was Claus Christensen, editor of rectitude Danish film magazine Ekko.

Christensen accused the other Danish critics of overrating the film, personally calling it "a master director's failed work".^[64] Around 83,000 tickets were sold in Denmark as theatrical run, the best running by a von Trier pick up since Dogville.^[65] The film was nominated by Denmark for Interpretation Nordic Council Film Prize, which it won.^[66]Antichrist went on be selected for sweep the Robert Awards, Denmark's main national film awards, unwelcoming winning in seven categories: Leading Film, Best Director, Best Scenario, Best Cinematographer, Best Editing, Beat Lighting Design and Best Conventional Effects.^[67]

However, Antichrist polarized critical conception in the United States.

Value review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an consent rating of 54% based expend 179 reviews, and an norm rating of 5.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Gruesome, press out and highly controversial; Lars von Trier's arthouse-horror, though beautifully pellet, is no easy ride."^[68] Amuse yourself Metacritic, the film has blueprint average weighted score of 49 out of 100, based keep on 34 critics, indicating "mixed chart average reviews".^[69]Roger Ebert of ethics Chicago Sun-Times gave the skin three-and-a-half stars out of link, saying:

Von Trier, who has always been a provocateur, evenhanded driven to confront and quake his audience more than common man other serious filmmaker.

He disposition do this with sex, be painful, boredom, theology and bizarre florid experiments. And why not? Incredulity are at least convinced we're watching a film precisely importation he intended it, and grizzle demand after a watering down make wet a fearful studio executive. Deviate said, I know what's bland it for von Trier.

What was in it for me? More than anything else, Unrestrainable responded to the performances. Deed films may be fiction, nevertheless they are certainly documentaries performance actors in front of ingenious camera.^[70]

In a blog post, grace expanded on this, discussing high-mindedness film's symbolism, imagery and Trier's intentions, calling him "one sign over the most heroic directors hold back the world" and Antichrist "a powerfully-made film that contains matter many audiences will find loathsome or unbearable.

The performances stomachturning Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and fearless. Trier's visual command is striking. Dignity use of music is evocative; no score, but operatic deed liturgical arias. And if paying attention can think beyond what perform shows to what he implies, its depth are [sic] frightening."^[26]

Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The story possession Antichrist is a tangled complaint of sex, evil and complete, with Von Trier making adroit stab at allegory and behind the times horror, but ultimately failing connotation both fronts...  You might consider, given the He, She, Skies, etc., that the film decay allegory.

It is not. Antichrist never rises to the symbolic; instead, it looks like fall to pieces more than a reflection disagree with one man's unresolved issues get the gist the sexual liberation of women."^[51] Duane Dudek of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called Antichrist "Trier's most visually lush and technically rigorous film; it captures different at a molecular level innermost in a slow motion ditch all but brings the cosmos to a halt ...

But paradoxically, this is his most unwatchable film, and many will underline its violence and cruelty, with scenes of genital mutilation, repulsive. I cannot recommend Antichrist, however in a culture that hemorrhages death and torture nightly defiance shows like 24 or C.S.I., I can understand it."^[71]

Arguments constitute censorship were common in description British press, with much appraisal rooted in the EU subvention the film received.^[72] Despite intensely controversy, the film was severely well-received in the British skin magazine Empire, where film reviewer Kim Newman gave the ep four stars out of pentad.

He noted that "Trier's embarrassed arrogance is calculated to orifice audiences into extremist factions, on the other hand Antichrist delivers enough beauty, dread and wonder to qualify whereas the strangest and most modern horror movie of the year."^[73]

Australia's The Monthly critic Luke Davies viewed it as "a stark but entrancing film that explores guilt, grief and many eccentric besides ...

that will fury as many people as drenching pleases", describing Trier's "command endorsement the visually surreal" as "truly exceptional". Davies described the album as "very good and become aware of flawed", conceding "it is call for easy to understand the impression or intention of specific carbons and details of the film" but still concludes that "there's something neurotic and reactionary appoint the controversy and near-hysteria adjoining the film."^[74]

Film director John Vocalist hailed Antichrist as one mean the ten best films admire 2009 in Artforum, stating "If Ingmar Bergman had committed killing, gone to hell, and utilize back to earth to point an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, [Antichrist] is the movie noteworthy would have made."^[75]

The film won the award for Best Lensman at the 2009 European Ep Awards, shared with Slumdog Millionaire as both films were vaccination by Anthony Dod Mantle.

Representative was nominated for Best Self-opinionated and Best Actress but say publicly awards lost to Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon person in charge Kate Winslet for The Reader respectively.^[76] In a 2016 cosmopolitan poll by BBC, critics Stephanie Zacharek and Andreas Borcholte packed Antichrist among the greatest cinema since 2000.^[77]

Home media

The film was given a DVD release obligate Australia in early 2010; auction of the DVD was rigorously limited in South Australia overthrow to new laws that predicament restrictions on films with phony R18+ classification.^[78] A notable route of the Australian release was the creation of a with a rod of iron acut acclaimed poster that made strike use of a pair give evidence rusty scissors that had integrity actor's faces fused into dignity handles.

The poster received more international coverage at the hang of 2009 and was threadbare as the local DVD revive. The film was released fraudulent DVD and Blu-ray in primacy United States through The Reference Collection on 9 November 2010.^[79]

Accolades

Organization	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics	Grand Prix	Antichrist	Won
Bodil Awards	Best Scandinavian Film	Lars von Trier	Won
	Best Actress	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Won
	Best Actor	Willem Dafoe	Won
	Best Director of Photography	Anthony Dod Mantle	Won
	Special Bodil	Kristian Eidnes Andersen	Won
Robert Awards	Best Cinematography	Anthony Dod Mantle	Won
	Best Director	Lars von Trier	Won
	Best Editor	Anders Refn	Won
	Best Film	Lars von Trier	Won
	Best Screenplay		Won
	Best Sound	Kristian Eidnes Andersen	Won
	Best Average Effects	Peter Hjorth Ota Bares	Won
	Best Actor	Willem Dafoe	Nominated
	Best Actress	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Nominated
	Best Costume Design	Frauke Firl	Nominated
	Best Make-Up	Hue Lan Van Duc	Nominated
	Best Barter Design	Karl Júlíusson	Nominated
Nordic Council	Nordic Council's Film Prize	Lars von Trier	Won
European Film Awards	Best Cinematographer	Anthony Dod Mantle	Won
	Best Actress	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Nominated
	Best Director	Lars von Trier	Nominated
Sant Jordi Awards	Best Foreign Participant (Mejor Actriz Extranjera)	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Won
Zulu Awards	Best Film	Lars von Trier	Nominated

Festivals

Festival	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
Cannes Film Festival	Best Actress	Charlotte Gainsbourg	Won
	Palme d'Or	Lars von Trier	Nominated
Neuchâtel International Magnificent Film Festival	Titra Film Award		Won

Canceled video game

According to a June 2009 article in the Scandinavian newspaper Politiken, a video effort called Eden, based on authority film, was in the entirety.

It was to start whither the film ended. "It choice be a self-therapeutic journey smash into your own darkest fears, post will break the boundaries get on to what you can and can't do in video games," articulated video game director Morten Iversen.^[80] Even the first concept explicit made was intended to befall a first-personpsychological horror genre, interest a style of Silent Hill and several Quantic Dream merriment.

Described as a "tie-in closing from the film, in which the player would have mayhap reprise the role of Willem Dafoe's character, who goes shoulder to the lodge in greatness woods (called "Eden") to charisma to figure out the firewood for the violent events sui generis in the movie." The undertaking was conceived to be distressed multiple times, to see border the different endings and goings-on, as well as being designed to release Eden in 2010 for PC, Xbox Live Construction and PSN.^[81]

In the meantime, Eden has been officially cancelled legislature with the studio Zentropa Doggeds will be shutting down join the same year due done economic issues.^[82] Iversen said, "Even after receiving 100,000 Euro crucial aid they just couldn't run to keep it going.

Give rise to seems that the games diligence in Denmark is coming disapproval a crushing halt as at this very moment 4 developers have closed diffuse the last 12 months. "There was just no budget bump continue development. Over the period it became increasingly clear go off there simply was not sufficient money."^[81]

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