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2009

Only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe, inhabit the space of this supernatural thriller directed by Lars Von Trier. The stars play a couple who attempt to grieve for their dead child by living in seclusion in the middle of a forest. But their story does not end there: in the forest, they encounter pure evil in .. Read more

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  Dunst: 'I could not have got away with Antichrist role'

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 05 Oct 2011

  Kirsten Dunst is adamant she could never have played the lead in Lars Von Trier's shocking movie Antichrist, because her fame and large chest would have made the film even more controversial. The Danish filmmaker hired Charlotte Gainsbourg to play a woman who mutilates her own genitals while struggling to cope with the loss of her only child in the explicit 2009 film. Dunst stars in Von Trier's latest movie, Melancholia, but the Bring It On beauty insists she would have been miscast for his... Read more

  

  Dafoe wasn't shocked by Von Trier's Cannes controversy

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 21 Feb 2012

  Actor Willem Dafoe was not surprised when shamed director Lars Von Trier hit the headlines for making controversial remarks about Nazis at a film festival last year (11), because he has been known to be a "buffoon". The Danish filmmaker stunned reporters when he made a joke about his German ancestry during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival and he was subsequently declared persona non grata at the event, where he was promoting his latest movie Melancholia. Dafoe befriended Von... Read more

  

  Gainsbourg refused to perform on-set sex act

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 06 Feb 2012

  Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg stood her ground against Antichrist director Lars Von Trier when he asked her to perform a sex act on a porn star for the film. Gainsbourg played a woman who mutilates her own genitals while struggling to cope with the loss of her only child in the explicit 2009 movie. She is now set to star in Von Trier's next film, Nymphomaniac, which will feature explicit sex scenes, but Gainsbourg insists she will not be taking part in the raunchy section of the shoot - and she' Read more

  

  Lars von Trier: Antichrist

  • 21 Jul 2009

  Not one to shy away from controversy, Lars von Trier is a director who likes to cause trouble. His latest film, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe, has already been censored in several countries due its strong sexual and violent content, but has been passed uncut in the UK. We sat down with the enfant terrible to talk controversy, Cannes and, er, pubic hair... LOVEFiLM: Where did the idea for Antichrist stem from? Lars von Trier: I concluded very early on in life that nature and... Read more

  

  Antichrist

  • Jonathan Crocker
  • 20 Jul 2009

  The most controversial film of the year? Hard to imagine anything else coming close. Danish bad-boy Lars von Trier emerges briefly from the chronic depression that threatened to end his career and gives himself – and us – an audacious dose of shock therapy. After suffering a family tragedy in the gorgeous, slo-mo opening sequence (lensed in black and white by Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar-winning Director of Photography Anthony Dod Mantle), a traumatised mother (Charlotte... Read more

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