Controversial 'Antichrist' not for everyone

Director: Lars Von Trier

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Cert: 18

As controversial a film as any released in recent years, one that has had critics and audiences sharply divided between it being crass, cruel and graphically unpleasant and an art-house movie of epic and life-changing proportions.

Dour it certainly is, and already infamous for its sexual mutilation scene – however brief it is.

Dafoe and Gainsbourg play an nameless couple with a dark and twisted

secret: while having sex their young son fell from a window and died.

Now they have taken themselves off to a lonely cabin in a forest to see what can be salvaged from their shattered lives.

It is a dark and unsettling piece, but with two draining central performances to sustain it.

Opinion will forever remain divided.

Star Rating: 3/5