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Where to begin with Antichrist? I had listened to quite a lot of the hype before watching this and been familiar with (and really liked) most of Lars Von Trier's previous films so I sort of half knew what to expect but I was still squirming and cringing as much as anyone. Like docbungle I wanted to like it more than I did and think I would on a second viewing. Hopefully, at its core this film is a rather a marvelous and delicious joke in the grand guignol style which at first only the director understands but which the audience is, eventually, gradually, let in on.
I think it will be higher on second viewing but for now Antichrist 8/10
Swordfish 3/10
Space Cowboys 7/10
Children of Men 9/10 - this would be a 10 were it not for some slightly clunkly writing and acting (by that dreadlocked middle-aged woman) that I only noticed 5th or 6th time around. Nitpicking aside this would be a pretty astonishing film even without the showstopping minutes-long steadicam shots, but those shots are what you can rewind over and over and over again, watching it thinking, how the fuck did they do THAT?
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