Thursday, November 05, 2009

Antichrist, Lars von Trier, 2009

Antichrist is a veritable black hole of psychological tumult and visceral eruption oddly married with cabin-in-the-wood slasher film conventions. Lars von Trier's characters, however, are too narrowly drawn to bear the weight of such ravenous activity. The director's own staging of Euripides' Medea is a far more fully realized portrait of unfettered, vindictive angst.

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