Antichrist 2009 movie sex scene
Visit for reviews of Antichrist.The text read: “When nature turns evil, true terror awaits … contains strong real sex, bloody violence and self-mutilation … cinema at its most extreme.” I know that she didn't feel so good about standing alone. How proud were you when you saw Charlotte win Best Actress at Cannes? Did it redeem the film? But to me there would be no reason for not showing the sex if they were having sex. I can understand some countries will have problems showing it because of censorship and I have no problem with them cutting something out as long as you as an audience know that it was done differently in the original. The film's most graphic scenes will be cut before it is released in some markets. But to me, that it was so graphic was kind of natural. I think it's fine to have the capacity to be shocked and to be revolted. That part I like very much and I think we have succeeded in, but the rest of the film to my taste could have had a more documentary look to it.Īt Cannes some people were disgusted that you included shots of penetrative sex and extreme violence. The film should have been divided into two very stylized parts, with the first featuring monumental pictures. I think the overall look of the film should have been more rough. But the more I see it and I've seen it about a hundred times it helps. Sometimes I wasn't so happy about the film while we were doing it. Sometimes I had to leave just to get some strength back and they were so understanding.Īre you happy with how the film turned out?
They were there for me whenever they were. But I was very satisfied with the actors.
There are things I like very much, and things that I'm not too crazy about. You said that you could only put half of your capacity into the film intellectually and physically. I asked her once, "How can this very, very shy person do scenes like this?" She said, "Yes, wouldn't you like to know?" I never got an answer for that. You can sit with her for a meal and she doesn't say anything. I don't think she was uncomfortable with it. How did you make her feel comfortable with that? The script calls for Gainsbourg to simulate cutting off her own clitoris. What am I going to do now? I have no idea. Is this the darkest film you've ever made? In one scene the female character saws through her husband's leg, and in another the male character ejaculates blood. She said, "Oh, you are making this wonderful, wonderful film," and I said, "But you haven't seen it." She was very nice to me. She thinks everything I am doing is fantastic. Was your wife happy when you started spending time on the film? It's very hard on your family if you're just not there mentally. Then I said, "Now I have to write ten pages every day," just to do something else. It was a project I thought of before I got depressed. I needed to make a film that was even more depressed than me. (See "Lars von Trier's Porno Horror Rhapsody") I don't know if you've ever been depressed, but you lie in bed and stare into the wall. This film was what I was clinging to when trying to get out of a depression. You've described Antichrist as the most important film of your career. Von Trier spoke with TIME ahead of the film's U.K. To cope with their grief, they travel to a forest retreat called Eden where they spiral into madness in explicit scenes involving (non-simulated) penetrative sex and (simulated) female genital mutilation. In the film's opening scene, a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) have sex while their toddler son falls out of a window to his death. But when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, audiences greeted it with a chorus of derisive laughter and jeering, while critics labeled it, among other things, misogynistic, offensive and revolting. Follow director Lars von Trier describes his dark thriller Antichrist as the most important film of his career.