If two skins.

Without scandalous sex scenes it's not always so at the Cannes film festival - but this time is also much more blood to do so. The Dane Lars von Trier creates a shock effect with his new film "Antichrist" - a nightmarish journey into the dark heart of a marriage.

 

This is thus to be found when Lars von Trier in a film director is really bad thing. In an interview with the Danish Film Institute, said the director, his new film is something like a pressure valve had. He had it gone so bad that he just had something to do, otherwise he would have been for many months in bed and the wall located angestarrt.

Now one would perhaps not know exactly what von Trier minds of demons when he was in poor condition, but is likely to plunge many of the motives, it piesacken, involuntarily in "Antichrist" again. Images, in which he was last in his youth had moved, had been processed, said the 53-year-olds in Cannes is a regular guest - and thanks to its radical nature films, always a bit of excitement for good.

Thus, "Antichrist" as the shocker of the festival announced, and according to blood was also the numerous journalists on Sunday evening at the first press screening. In the end, it was betrayed, it was even the most hardened too much: When the film briefly before closing again in an epilogue einschwenkt, moaned some tortured to - probably not because the movie he was so bad, but because Lars von Trier with bloody horror film material and unvarnished sex scenes creates the viewer emotionally touching. And that is sometimes strenuous.

The film tells the story of a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg), that a tragic accident, loses his child. The Small freed from his race grid, as the parents - in the same room - ecstatic to have sex - and falls from the window of the apartment. In order to heal the pain, the two therapeutic trip to their summer house "Eden", a hut in the midst of vast forests, where the parent with the kids had their best time. The man is a psychoanalyst and starts, seemingly unaffected by the death of his son, his wife with questions about torture.

"I have my experience with cognitive therapy," says Lars von Trier in the interview, which is also in the press release for the film is printed, "it seems about to go yourself if you are afraid of a cliff herunterzufallen yourself on this very cliff Skip to let the fear of defeat. Obviously it is a very successful form of therapy, but of course it always depends on how high the cliff is. "

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His male protagonists called Trier times like an idiot, which does not have a clue and nothing `ll. Hardly surprising then, that the situation in the lonely forest hut escalates. The therapeutic sessions bring evil and madness in the woman to light, and what should serve to heal, becomes nightmarish exorcism of evil ends. While acorns as dead boll on the roof of the building drum, is inside a destructive spiral of sex and violence in motion at the end of which is a blood ejakulierenden penis, hand trimmed labia and a quite literal interpretation of the continuing phrase "Klotz the leg "there.

Motifs from nature as the Church of Satan to dive here, and the woman, who in their studies with witch burnings employed, consider themselves to be fundamentally corrupted and responsible for the death of her own child. Rare was the distrust of women, in Lars von Trier a recurring theme, distinctive, rare, perhaps most recently in "Breaking The Waves", was also despair at the seemingly impossible coexistence of man and woman is greater.

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Von Trier's new film is an extremely schwerverdauliches but terrific and very bildgewaltiges masterpiece (camera of "Slumdog Millionaire" Cinematograf Anthony Dod Mantle), which is a good chance at the Palme d'Or should have, even if the applause of journalists with the balance boos continued. But this is part of the ballet to be balanced and aversion, in Cannes for the annual ritual belongs.