Antichrist
Actually this film was the first one I saw after my long drought of two movie-less months. Actually they rather felt like 6 months without any movies, and I was yearning for one. Maybe just by being able to see a film again, I felt more favorable towards “Antichrist”, but maybe it also is just because the film really wasn’t as bad as I feared.
So, I really dislike Charlotte Gainsbourg, as a person (from some interview with her I read) to the way she looks, moves and acts. She’s just downright weird, so unlikeable that I would probably feel pity with her if she were some random person I meet. Ultimately, I simply don’t like seeing her, and for a film in which she is one of the two only characters actually present, I was able to support her for a surpringly long time.
Willem Dafoe, however, the supposedly more positive character of the two, was brilliant though. I wonder what kind of chemistry Dafoe and Eva Green would have had. I get a feeling that the film would have turned out completely different if Eva Green had played in the film. Not necessarily better, because I liked the interaction between Dafoe and Gainsbourg a lot, but different. I think Eva Green has a stronger character, and would have emphasized on the woman’s struggling more than just playing a maniac.
Apart from that, “Antichrist” is exactly what all the newspapers say about the film, except with a little less enthusiasm and a little less exaggeration. But that is because for some reason, German newspapers either find the film to be a masterpiece (which I don’t necessarily agree on) or to be extremely shocking and gory (honestly the film wasn’t that bad). I don’t find all that much shocking about the film, and weirdly enough, I did not feel depressed when I saw it. It was more like an intense, scary atmosphere that sucked you into it, but since the content of the movie is just miles away from whatever I encounter in my life, I wouldn’t feel touched or depressed by it. Just impressed. I would recommend the film if Lars von Trier didn’t make so many more better ones, and I still wish he worked on “Wasington” instead of “Antichrist”. All in all, however, this is probably one of the best horror movies I have seen in quite awhile, although that might simply be due to the fact that I dislike horror flicks.