Lars Von Trier’s 2009 film “Antichrist” is a dour-hearted romp through the foul trenches of human depression.
The first part of an unofficial Depression Trilogy (which also includes 2011’s “Melancholia” and 2013’s “Nymphomaniac“), “Antichrist” is about a couple who, while engaged in a bout of shower coitus, miss that their five-year-old son has accidentally fallen out of their apartment window and died.
Their child’s death throws Her (the characters are unnamed) into a bout of suicidal depression.
He, being a therapist, elects to take her to their cabin in the woods for a therapeutic retreat. The cabin in the…The post The Reason Willem Dafoe Needed a Body Double On Antichrist Might Surprise You appeared first on /Film.
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