Antichrist

Antichrist

2009 · 1 hr 48 min · Not Rated

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Directors

Lars von Trier

Actors

  • Willem Dafoe
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Credits: 3

Summary

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

More about this movie

A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.