It would be easy, and a cop-out, to simply dismiss Lars von Trier’s eyeball-blanching, conscience-searing psychosexual horror experience “Antichrist” as obscene, evil or just bad movie-making.
I prefer to think of “Antichrist” as a metaphor-choked adult Grimms fairly tale gone horribly awry.
Like Peter Greenaway’s movies – especially his “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” – von Trier’s films flirt with taboo and confrontational imagery. (Read more…) Rated: NR (adults only). 109 minutes.
Opens Friday, October 23 at the Music Box in Chicago.