She offers her own interpretations of the character she played but doesn’t have all of the answers about the film, admitting that the director didn’t like offering explanations to anything.

So, if you have the proper equipment to playback 1080i50-encoded discs, this one could be slightly cheaper to import to the U.Lastly, this high-definition transfer is encoded in 1080p, as opposed to the one M6 used, which is encoded in 1080/50i. Earlier this year, the film also won four Bodil awards, including Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Actor (Willem Dafoe). Mixed with some behind-the-scenes bits we see the test film, shot with different actors, which includes a demo of the “falling acorn” scene, one of the more striking moments in Antichrist (it’s the moment in the finished film where Dafoe stands in front of the cabin with the acorns slowly falling around him. Willem Dafoe: Agent of Fantasy is the only exclusive Criterion supplement found on here, produced for this edition, featuring an 18-minute interview with Dafoe.

As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images that might have impressed even Hieronymus Bosch…" But is Antichrist truly that bad? Because, honestly, how could you not appreciate a movie that was described by gonzo filmmaker John Waters with the following: "If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, this is the movie he would have made. He explains how some of the sound effects were created, and I was surprised by some of the bizarre methods he used to get the sounds, which included him actually swallowing a microphone so he could record what was going on inside his own body.The disc then concludes with three theatrical trailers, two looking to be the Danish ones, and the third being the IFC trailer. It’s actually rather surprising how hard it was to find this location, with von Trier needing a cabin near an oak tree (eventually the oak tree was manufactured,) and there’s an amusing incident involving a stork that caused the crew to have to move (von Trier refers to it as a “stupid stork!

The film was shot with the Red Digital Camera and it appears this transfer was taken directly from the digital source. The Visual Style of Antichrist - director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle talks about the level of naturalism in Antichrist, the specific type of look desired by director Lars von Trier, how some of the most controversial scenes were shot, etc. The movie devolves, particularly in the last act, into a kind of ragged, go-for-broke horror movie, complete with talking animals, malevolent forces, and Gainsbourg being turned (quite unfairly, in this reviewer's opinion) into a kind of demonic witch who takes her aggression out on her husband and herself, including some gag-worthy scenes of genital mutilation that oscillate between extreme realism and phony, rubber prosthetic fakeness. He also defends von Trier’s answer to the question about “justifying” the film at the press conference we saw in the first segment of Cannes section.Danish director Lars von Trier's controversial film "Antichrist" (2009) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Artificial Eye. Commentary - this is the same audio commentary with Professor Murray Smith from University of Kent in the United Kingdom and director Lars von Trier that appears on the French Blu-ray release of Antichrist.

It's quite horrific in some parts as it cuts so close to the bone that you can't help but stare and become drawn in. The Three Beggars is an 8-minute portion that concentrates on the animals that appear in the film, and working with them. Winner of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" (2009) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. The colour scheme is dark but the colours do still manage to have a certain pop, and black levels are deep and rich. The mother is initially admitted to hospital following the incident, but her husband - a therapist - insists on taking her to their remote forest cabin, 'Eden', and looking after her himself.But then things devolve into messy horror movie clichés, which resolve with some kind of bafflingly misogynistic image of dead women, throughout the ages, coming out of the woods, in a ghostly march. Presented in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film charts the often violent and disturbing course of the couple's anguish as they immerse themselves in nature and act out their deep suffering in a sequence of increasingly bizarre and brutal rituals. Unfortunately you cannot watch everything straight through, having to select each segment as you go. it is not dissimiliar to a good old asian horror with great suspense, director's orientation including nice projection angles and variety. Note: This Blu-ray disc is encoded in 1080i50, a standard not supported by the overwhelming majority of Blu-ray players and TV sets in the U.