“ANTICHRIST” FAILS TO POSSESS
Death is interesting. Grief is interesting. Religion is interesting. Sex is interesting. And yet, “Antichrist” somehow manages not to be interesting, despite attempting to tackle all of these things.
“Antichrist” is ostensibly the story of He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a married couple who have tragically lost their young son in a terrible accident (he falls out the window while they’re having sex). The remainder of the movie is the account of how they try to come to terms with that tragedy. This being a Lars von Trier extravaganza, what follows is not the typical...
