: Von Trier wrote the screenplay while hospitalized for a significant episode of clinical depression, describing the finished work as the film that "comes closest to a scream".
When Lars von Trier unleashed Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, he didn’t just premiere a movie; he detonated a bomb. The film was met with a toxic cocktail of walkouts, fainting spells, and furious jeers. Critics called it misogynistic, pornographic, and vile. Others called it a masterpiece. movie antichrist 2009 extra quality
★★★★½ (Five stars for vision, minus half a star for the existential dread that lasts three weeks.) : Von Trier wrote the screenplay while hospitalized