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Antichrist arrived in 2009 after von Trier's two biggest creative failures (2005's Manderlay and 2006's The Boss of It All). After he grappled with crippling depression, antidepressants left him overweight and with a tremor. He was unable to operate a camera—something he felt was deeply important to his process. Yet he came back at his highest strength. The three films he made, each featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist, 2011's Melancholia, and 2013's Nymphomaniac), were dubbed his "Depression Trilogy." They are all unequivocal masterworks. Antichrist has been ascribed many meanings. One is an indictment of the exposure therapy von Trier went through with his therapist.

Von Trier's Cannes enfant terrible status in some way limits the discussion around Antichrist—"Is it misogynist or not?" is an idiotic and simplistic approach to art. Like with many great filmmakers, his care in depicting women characters does not stop him from behaving like a piece of shit in real life. Björk retired from acting after Dancer in the Dark (2000), later citing that her boundaries were constantly crossed by the director. Antichrist was originally set to star Eva Green, but von Trier pushed her to act in scenes she didn't feel comfortable with. Earlier, she had accused him of outright misconduct and implied her career had been destroyed by leaving the production.

Von Trier is obsessed with women, just as his idols were (Bergman, Dreyer, Fassbinder); he's obsessed with sexual violence in all its myriad forms. The women von Trier writes are astounding, complex portrayals of their most extreme emotional states. No one has ever examined female depression in such a beautiful way. That he may equally be getting off on destroying these women as he is showing their pain is not an either/or question.

Antichrist is full of portentous images that imply that motherhood is an aberration—a stillborn deer lying limp in its birth caul from its mother's womb, ants swarming a baby hawk that's fallen from its nest, a fox devouring its young, a crow buried in the earth. The inexplicable baby voice wailing in the wilderness, seducing Gainsbourg's character away from her child is something out of folk tales and the Brothers Grimm. Her motion toward the sky following this scene, blurring seamlessly with an impossible overhead shot of a vast deep-growth forest. She intones "Nature is Satan's church" to her husband's dubious shock. Nature means both instinct and a gnostic demiurge. She never mentions God. Only Satan. "Eden" is a space of inexplicable, Lovecraftian horror here. Unspoken in Antichrist is the idea that an idea can poison someone, drive them mad. She is contaminated by her research.

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Quote from: HACKANUT on February 16, 2025, 06:28:53 PMhttps://archive.org/details/filmography-david-lynch

Almost everything. "The Donut" but not the whole, as it were.

Quote from: Find Your Magali on February 17, 2025, 08:46:26 PMThe Licorice Pizza trailer was incredible and was obviously a PTA special. I cannot believe he'd be letting anyone else handle this summer's trailer(s)

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