Five days into the festival, it would appear the nuttiest entry has arrived.
I doubt anyone can top the sheer madness and graphic absurdity of Lars Von Trier’s "Antichrist."
At first, it’s an elegant grief drama. Then it transforms into "The Shining" meets "Evil Dead" with green politics, torture porn and a fair amount of Lynchian abstractions.
It’s also supremely misogynistic, or maybe it twists misogyny around to mock the very concept. Catherine Breillat could have a field day figuring that one out.
The movie begins with the apparent suicide of a young child, seen in the stylish black-and-white prologue jumping out of a window while his parents (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) screw in the next room.