Surviving madness, mutilation and a mauling Nov 21, 2009
Awarded best actress at Cannes for a role that plumbs grief, Charlotte Gainsbourg enjoyed the extremes. Charlotte Gainsbourg was hardly expecting cheers when her film Antichrist was shown at Cannes this year. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* OTHER RELEASES Nov 13, 2009
As a married couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) make love, their child plummets to his death. Then, as they retire to the countryside for therapy, the pair descend into psychological, physical and sexual violence amid surreal images and a doom-laden atmosphere. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Beyond the Multiplex Nov 7, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in "Antichrist." ... They emerge from von Trier's original desire to make something close to a conventional horror film -- you can see traces of "The Shining" and "Rosemary's Baby" in "Antichrist" -- and they're only superficial or symbolic representations of the real violence between the unnamed central couple, played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. (Salon)
Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa Nov 6, 2009
" Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: ZOMG! This is what Roddenberry's atheist-Apollonian vision of the future has come to! Unemployed dinner-theater actors in Kirk and Spock drag and plastic tricorders, doing a laser show for the kiddies! At Waldameer WaterWorld in Erie, Pa.! It will bear the same relationship to any actual "Star Trek" incarnation as that teeny-tiny Stonehenge in "Spinal Tap" bears to seeing Led Zeppelin play live in 1973! And you're absolutely right. OK, OK,... (Salon)
Is It Worth Sitting Though Lars von Trier's Antichrist? Oct 24, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in AntichristLars von Trier freely admits in interviews that he makes the same film over and over: a huis clos melodrama in which a passive, vulnerable, often mentally unstable woman is gradually driven crazy, and sometimes killed, by the gaslighting of a sadistic man ... The film opens with a dialogue-free preface, shot in black and white and set to the sublime Handel aria, "." As water beads on a glass shower door, a man and a woman, identified in the... (Slate)
Movie capsule reviews Oct 24, 2009
It s a violently psychosexual drama about an unnamed couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) working out their grief over their child s death and plunging into an increasingly primeval struggle. Maddening, misogynistic, ridiculous, powerful - not for the faint of heart. (Boston Globe)
‘Antichrist’: A primal scream from deep in the woods Oct 23, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg (above and below) and Willem Dafoe are grieving parents who plunge into darkness after their child s death in Lars von Trier s Antichrist ... In the first chapter, titled Grief, He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) relocate to a cabin in the woods to work through their sorrow ... Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe. (Boston Globe)
Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
Last year, I posted two other videos featuring Daho -- his quietly compelling with Charlotte Gainsbourg and his to Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick. This song, is a hauntingly atmospheric ode to random encounters in the streets and caf. (Salon)
Best bets: Swank hopes to soar with Amelia Oct 19, 2009
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Lars Von Triers film about a grieving couple who hopes to recover from the loss of their child by retreating to a cabin in the woods. But nature doesnt exactly cure their broken hearts instead it fuels their guilt and rage. (MSNBC -- News)
What's the beelze-hubbub? Oct 19, 2009
The film, out Friday, finds a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) grieving for their dead son ... The film, out Friday, finds a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) grieving for their dead son ... Rex USA Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Antichrist. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Surviving ‘Antichrist’: How Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe played their grueling roles Oct 18, 2009
Surviving Antichrist : How Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe played their grueling roles - The Boston Globe ... Stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe on how they survived Antichrist ... Von Trier tried (barely) to explain himself in Cannes, and the press conference was so raucous that the film s stars, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, didn t get a word in. (Boston Globe)
Clooney is the buzz, not any blockbusters, at Toronto Film Festival Sep 14, 2009
This is a festival with a major movie in which Charlotte Gainsbourg pounds Willem Dafoe below the belt ( Antichrist ) and another, less major one in which kids dressed as old people pound themselves into inanimate objects ( Trash Humpers ). But all anyone can talk about is George Clooney. (Boston Globe)
A look at this fall’s movies Sep 13, 2009
Lars von Trier ( Breaking the Waves, Dogville ) directs Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who lose a child. Consequently, she loses her mind. (Boston Globe)
THE HORROR ...: The other scary films coming out this fall Aug 28, 2009
23) Director: Stars: , Charlotte Gainsbourg Story: A grieving couple retreat to the woods to mend after the death of their child. But strange things begin to happen in the woods, leading them to confront their fears in terrible ways. (USA Today)
Antichrists Von Trier welcomes outrage Jul 21, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg receives the best actress award for her role in "Antichrist," the new film by Lars Von Trier, at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24 ... Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a couple who struggle to cope with the loss of their young son, the psychological horror story drew gasps, groans, jeers and just a few cheers when it was screened at the annual cinema showcase. (MSNBC -- News)
Tarantino to attend MIFF Jul 7, 2009
It will also be showing Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist, which stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Classification Board has asked to see the film. (The Age, Australia)
Still more DVDs you should have seen (but didn't) May 28, 2009
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Antichrist.". Ah, After a rainy weekend, the sun came out over the Boulevard de la Croisette. (Salon)
Cannes: Winners/Losers May 28, 2009
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg give their all; she totally deserved the best actress prize. Any student of von Trier will want to see the movie. (Variety)
WWI drama takes top honors at Cannes May 26, 2009
But those films had their own triumphs: Christoph Waltz was named best actor for his portrayal of a homicidal Nazi colonel in "Inglourious Basterds," a World War II epic, and Charlotte Gainsbourg claimed best-actress honors for her role as a psychotic, abusive, self-mutilating wife in "Antichrist.". Rapper T.I. gives pre-prison concert. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Amid economic gloom, movies shone at Cannes May 26, 2009
The jury awarded Charlotte Gainsbourg the best-actress award for her terrifying turn as a grieving mother who descends into madness. "I'm so proud of having been able to work with Lars von Trier," Gainsbourg said. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
* Violence reaps rewards at Cannes May 26, 2009
Huppert handed the prize for best actress to Charlotte Gainsbourg, who delivers a wild, fearless performance as a grieving mother in Antichrist, an English-language film from the Danish director Lars von Trier. Its easy to imagine that Huppert and her fellow juror, the actress Asia Argento, both ferocious screen performers, were impressed with the intensity of Gainsbourgs performance, which involves a fair amount of nudity and some frantic (and graphic) backwoods masturbation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Cannes in black and white, and brighter colors, too May 26, 2009
And Antichrist's Charlotte Gainsbourg won best actress. Earlier in the week, White Ribbon director Michael Haneke (best known in the USA for his sadistic thriller Funny Games) said his film's study of a brutalized generation that would later grow up to support Hitler was merely a worst-case scenario. (USA Today -- Life)
Haneke's The White Ribbon wins Palme d'Or May 25, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Michael Haenke and a tearful Warwick Thornton receive their awards ... Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best-actress honour for von Trier's Antichrist, a film that riled and repelled many Cannes viewers with its explicit images of physical abuse involving a grieving couple. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Austrian film takes Cannes honour May 25, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg was named best actress for her role in Lars Von Trier's controversial film Antichrist ... Charlotte Gainsbourg won for her gritty performance. (BBC News -- Europe)
Best of the Fest May 25, 2009
It was a big night for Austria, whose triumphs included Christoph Waltz as best actor for Tarantino's World War II epic "Inglourious Basterds." Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best-actress honor for von Trier's "Antichrist," a film that riled and repelled many Cannes viewers with its explicit images of physical abuse involving a grieving couple. Haneke addressed his wife as he accepted his award, noting that "happiness is very rare.". (Fox News)
'White Ribbon' wins gold at Cannes May 25, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress honor for von Trier's "Antichrist." Haneke addressed his wife as he accepted his award, noting that happiness is rare. "This is one moment in my life in which I'm very happy, and so are you, I believe," said Haneke, who received the festival's Palme d'Or for his beautifully photographed black-and-white tale. (Boston Globe)
'White Ribbon' drama ties up top prize at Cannes May 25, 2009
France's Charlotte Gainsbourg took the best actress award for her taboo-defying role as a woman driven insane by grief in the shock Danish thriller " Antichrist " by Lars Von Trier. Alain Resnais, 86, the grand old man of French cinema and erstwhile "New Wave" icon, was awarded a special prize for his half-century career. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Cannes lineup shows darker side of mothers' love May 24, 2009
That was the evening Lars von Trier unveiled "Antichrist," in which Charlotte Gainsbourg goes to town on herself and Willem Dafoe. Her break with sanity begins not long after her infant climbs out of a window and falls to his death. (Boston Globe)
Cannes crowds await jury's pick for best of fest May 24, 2009
Other past winners in the running were Ken Loach, who won in 2006 with "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and directed one of this festival's most popular entries, the soccer-themed comedy "Looking for Eric," featuring former football star Eric Cantona; and Lars von Trier, the 2000 winner for "Dancer in the Dark," whose domestic drama "Antichrist," with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg acting out brutish scenes of torture and mutilation, was generally reviled by this year's audiences.... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
IFC acquires von Trier's, Loach's Cannes entries May 22, 2009
French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, second from left, and her husband French actor Yvan Attal, left, Danish director Lars Von Trier, third from left, American actor Willem Dafoe, third from right, his wife Italian actress Giada Colagrande, second from right, and Danish producer Meta Louise Foldager, right, arrive on the red carpet for the screening of the film 'Antichrist', during the 62nd International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 18, 2009 ... IFC Films says it has... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
LIVE FROM ... BLOG May 21, 2009
Lars Von Trier's psychosexual hellzapoppin Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a mourning couple who go on a nightmarish trip to the woods that culminates in mutilation and lust, just got picked up for distribution by IFC Films ... Antichrist stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple that retreats to a secluded forest cabin after the death of their child and find that nature is turning monstrous on them. (USA Today -- Life)
Lars stares down Cannes critics May 20, 2009
" The Telegraph, meanwhile, said it was "cinema at its most extreme and mind-boggling" - a film that "looks brilliant", with "brave and truthful" performances. 'Hand of God'Largely set in a cabin in the woods, Antichrist shows a married couple - played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg - recovering from the trauma of losing a child. The film tells of a married couple recovering from the death of a child What follows involves sex, violence, an eviscerated talking fox and a climactic scene... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Celebrities party in Cannes May 19, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg with director Lars Van Trier promoting the film "Antichrist" in Cannes. Photo: Reuters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Cannes: Lars von Trier and Jane Campion ... they're ba-a-ack! May 19, 2009
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in "Antichrist." ... Lars von Trier's comeback vehicle "Antichrist," starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple who delve into some unsavory sexual and/or sadomasochistic practices after the death of their son, seems like the first scandalous offering, and hence the first real vehicle for buzz, at Cannes this year. (Salon)
Lars von Trier divides audiences with 'Antichrist' May 19, 2009
"Some viewers may disagree with that typical piece of von Trier bravado. "Antichrist" drew gasps, titters, applause and boos at its first Cannes Film Festival screening.The opening question at the subsequent press conference was an angry demand that von Trier justify having made the film, about a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who retreat to their woodland cabin to heal after the death of their child. Out in the wilderness, malevolent nature _ animal, vegetable and most of all... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Report from Cannes: Ang Lee's Woodstock Aberration May 17, 2009
Willem DaFoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Taking Woodstock Taking Woodstock / Focus Features Article Tools. I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm going to get back to the land And get my soul free. (Time.com)
Cannes 2009: The films May 14, 2009
Antichrist Director: Lars von Trier Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg Country: Denmark. Bright Star Director: Jane Campion Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish Country: New Zealand. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Cannes Fest names 20 films in competition Apr 28, 2009
It stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. This years competition also features Cannes veterans Pedro Almodovar and Michael Haneke. (MSNBC -- Movies)
