David Kronenbourg
Well-Known Member
lars von triers new film causing a bit of a stir at cannes. supposedly there's some extremely graphic scenes of genital mutilation. looks like a standard couple in the woods psychological horror but i guess you can't show a cock being whacked with a plank in the trailer.
Cannes Film Festival 2009 : Lars Von Trier's 'torture porn' film Antichrist shocks
Lars Von Trier’s new film Antichrist has stunned the Cannes Film Festival, eliciting jeers and cries of disbelief from critics who dubbed it art-house ‘torture porn’.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor in Cannes
Published: 3:25PM BST 18 May 2009
US actor Willem Dafoe and Anglo-French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg in a scene from Antichrist
The drama starring US actor Willem Dafoe and Anglo-French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg features graphic scenes of sex, extreme violence and genital self-mutilation.
There was a smattering of applause at the press screening but they were all but drowned by the boos, as Von Trier served up the talking point of this year’s festival.
Time magazine described Antichrist as “gross-out gruesome” and detailed its most lurid moments: “Among the effects you won’t see in Star Trek (the sensitive reader may wish to skip the rest of this paragraph, or story): a brief glimpse of sexual penetration, the whacking of an erect penis by a plank, the snipping off of a clitoris, in surgical close-up, and the boring of a hole through a man’s leg, to which a heavy grinding wheel is attached.”
The violence is perpetrated by Gainsbourg’s character on her husband. When their young son dies, the grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, only for Gainsbourg to lose her grip on reality.
Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere declared that Antichrist represented “easily one of the biggest debacles in Cannes Film Festival history and the complete meltdown of a major film artist in a way that invites comparisons to the sinking of the Titanic”.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: “Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief.”
At a press conference after the screening, the Danish director refused to answer questions about why he had chosen to make such a film.
“I don’t think I have to justify it. I can’t justify myself. I make films and I enjoyed making this very much. I think it’s a very strange question. I don’t think I owe anyone an explanation. I never had a choice – it’s the hand of God, I’m afraid.”
He added: “I am the best film director in the world. All the others are over-rated, it’s quite simple. I’m sure other directors may feel the same but maybe they don’t say it.”
Dafoe said making the film was “actors’ heaven” while Gainsbourg would not be drawn on her graphic scenes, saying only: “It was quite an experience."
Cannes Film Festival 2009 : Lars Von Trier's 'torture porn' film Antichrist shocks
Lars Von Trier’s new film Antichrist has stunned the Cannes Film Festival, eliciting jeers and cries of disbelief from critics who dubbed it art-house ‘torture porn’.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor in Cannes
Published: 3:25PM BST 18 May 2009
The drama starring US actor Willem Dafoe and Anglo-French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg features graphic scenes of sex, extreme violence and genital self-mutilation.
There was a smattering of applause at the press screening but they were all but drowned by the boos, as Von Trier served up the talking point of this year’s festival.
Time magazine described Antichrist as “gross-out gruesome” and detailed its most lurid moments: “Among the effects you won’t see in Star Trek (the sensitive reader may wish to skip the rest of this paragraph, or story): a brief glimpse of sexual penetration, the whacking of an erect penis by a plank, the snipping off of a clitoris, in surgical close-up, and the boring of a hole through a man’s leg, to which a heavy grinding wheel is attached.”
The violence is perpetrated by Gainsbourg’s character on her husband. When their young son dies, the grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, only for Gainsbourg to lose her grip on reality.
Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere declared that Antichrist represented “easily one of the biggest debacles in Cannes Film Festival history and the complete meltdown of a major film artist in a way that invites comparisons to the sinking of the Titanic”.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: “Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief.”
At a press conference after the screening, the Danish director refused to answer questions about why he had chosen to make such a film.
“I don’t think I have to justify it. I can’t justify myself. I make films and I enjoyed making this very much. I think it’s a very strange question. I don’t think I owe anyone an explanation. I never had a choice – it’s the hand of God, I’m afraid.”
He added: “I am the best film director in the world. All the others are over-rated, it’s quite simple. I’m sure other directors may feel the same but maybe they don’t say it.”
Dafoe said making the film was “actors’ heaven” while Gainsbourg would not be drawn on her graphic scenes, saying only: “It was quite an experience."
