![]() ![]() A day after many members of the audience recoiled at its first Cannes showing, " Antichrist" is brewing a scandal here I am reminded of the tumult following the 1976 premiere of Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses" and its castration scene. Lars Von Trier's new film will not leave me alone. Fresh from my viewing, surrounded by the turmoil, this was my blog posted May 19: On this eve of the 34th annual festival, I thought it might be useful to provide s flashback to what I wrote from Cannes in May. If he had named the characters John and Mary, and titled the film "A Nightmare," what conclusions might we have arrived at? By naming his characters only He and She, he suggests the dark side of an alternative Garden of Eden, and then disturbing his ending becomes a mirror image of Christ welcoming the faithful into the kingdom of heaven. By naming it " Antichrist," he provides a lens through which to view its perplexing behavior. Von Trier was nothing if not canny in his title for the film. It was the same last May at Cannes, and that was before it has even been seen. ![]() Of the 400 or so films at TIFF this year, " Antichrist" was the first that sold out in advance. This willfully controversial director will inspire, as he often does, a storm of controversy, debate, critics clamoring to get into advance screenings that are already jammed, and a contentious press conference. Lars Von Trier's " Antichrist" is poised to detonate at the Toronto Film Festival. ![]()
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