Antichrist is a 2009 film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, earned the award for Best Actress at Cannes French interpreter.
The film, although suggestive, gives way to the undisputed and innovative cinematic technique shown for many years by the Danish director. The technique, narrative, and a recitation of the two protagonists emphatic and always on the verge of a nervous breakdown, as well as a aesthetics prolixity and redundancy sometimes irritating, are signs of far-style dry, nimble and almost documentary by Lars von Trier to Dogma 95 times. Just think of the film The Kingdom (1994), Breaking the Waves (1996), Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000).
The film begins with a sort of prologue sleek style video clips where two bodies, accompanied by notes and lines of an aria by Handel: "Let me weep / my cruel fate / and that I long for freedom," are represented black and white and slow motion effect. The bodies of men and women huddle in an animalistic embrace, their arms touching the sweaty skin between the sheets, while in another room, or perhaps the same, a child (their son) out of its box, on the salt window sill, breathing the cold of winter, but in the end, while a white snow falls outside and soft, he falls and dies.
From this time the married couple that decides to move to an isolated area for ri.elaborare ri.costruire mourning and his relationship, soon will face, as well as their psychological consistency, something wicked will drag them in a hellish nightmare ...
DOGMA 95
"I swear to abide by the following list of rules drawn up and confirmed by the DOGMA 95:
be filmed on location shooting. Must not be brought scenery and props (If there are specific requirements for history, a location must be chosen according to the needs).
The sound must never be produced apart from the images and vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the film is being shot).
The camera must be carried by hand. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. (The film must not take place in front of the camera, shooting must take place where the film takes place).
The film must be in color. Special lighting is not allowed. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene, the scene must be cut or you can set one light to the camera itself).
Optical work and filters are forbidden.
The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. should not happen).
The Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)
kind of movies are not acceptable.
The final work must be transferred on Academy 35mm film, with a 4:3 aspect ratio, not widescreen. (Originally it was required to turn directly in Academy 35mm, but the rule has been changed to facilitate the production of low-cost).
The director must not be credited.
also swear as a director to refrain from personal taste! I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a "job" because I consider the most important moment of the complex. My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings from my. I vow to do so by all means possible, and the cost of any good taste and any aesthetic considerations. So I give my vow of chastity. "
Copenhagen, Monday, March 13, 1995 On behalf of DOGMA 95
Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg
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