영어 통 번역 시험 전문 학원 자료 Antichrist Director Lars von Trier 09 . 07 . 30 Danish director Lars von Trier describes his dark thriller Antichrist as the most important film of his career . But when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May , audiences greeted it with a chorus of derisive laughter and jeering , while critics labeled it , among other things , misogynistic , offensive and revolting . It ' s easy to see why . In the film ' s opening scene , a couple ( Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg ) have sex while their toddler son falls out of a window to his death . To cope with their grief , they travel to a forest retreat called Eden where they spiral into madness in explicit scenes involving ( non - simulated ) penetrative sex and ( simulated ) female genital mutilation . Von Trier spoke with TIME ahead of the film ' s U . K . premiere on July 24 . You ' ve described Antichrist as the most important film of your career . Why ? This film was what I was clinging to when trying to get out of a depression . It was kind of like a tool . I don ' t know if you ' ve ever been depressed , but you lie in bed and stare into the wall . It was better to look at some actors . ( See " Lars von Trier ' s Porno Horror Rhapsody ") What motivated you to get on with it ? I needed to make a film that was even more depressed than me . [ Laughs . ] It was a project I thought of before I got depressed . Then I took a long pause . Then I said , " Now I have to write ten pages every day , " just to do something else . It ' s very hard on your family if you ' re just not there mentally . Was your wife happy when you started spending time on the film ? Yes . Oh , yes . She thinks everything I am doing is fantastic . She said , " Oh , you are making this wonderful , wonderful film , " and I said , " But you haven ' t seen it . " She was very nice to me . In one scene the female character saws through her husband ' s leg , and in another the male character ejaculates blood . Is this the darkest film you ' ve ever made ? Yeah , it could be . [ Pause . ] Yeah , yeah . Probably . What am I going to do now ? I have no idea . The script calls for Gainsbourg to simulate cutting off her own clitoris . How did you make her feel comfortable with that ? I don ' t think she was uncomfortable with it . I didn ' t feel that . Privately she is so shy . You can sit with her for a meal and she doesn ' t say anything . I asked her once , " How can this very , very shy person do scenes like this ? " She said , " Yes , wouldn ' t you like to know ? " I never got an answer for that . ( Read " Yes We Cannes ") You said that you could only put half of your capacity into the film intellectually and physically . Does that mean it took twice as long ? It means it ' s only half as good . [ Laughs . ] There are things I like very much , and things that I ' m not too crazy about . But I was very satisfied with the actors . They helped me very much . I ' m very grateful . How did they help you ? They were there for me whenever they were [ on set ] . Sometimes I had to leave just to get some strength back and they were so understanding . Are you happy with how the film turned out ? I don ' t think I lived up to my best . Sometimes I wasn ' t so happy about the film while we were doing it . But the more I see it — and I ' ve seen it about a hundred times — it helps . I think the overall look of the film should have been more rough . The film should have been divided into two very stylized parts , with the first featuring monumental pictures . That part I like very much and I think we have succeeded in , but the rest of the film to my taste could have had a more documentary look to it . At Cannes some people were disgusted that you included shots of penetrative sex and extreme violence . Are they just prudes ? No . I think it ' s fine to have the capacity to be shocked and to be revolted . That ' s good . But to me , that it was so graphic was kind of natural . ( Read " Little Movies Go Big Time ") The film ' s most graphic scenes will be cut before it is released in the United States on October 23 . How do you feel about that ? I can understand some countries will have problems showing it because of censorship and I have no problem with them cutting something out as long as you as an audience know that it was done differently in the original . But to me there would be no reason for not showing the sex if they were having sex . How proud were you when you saw Charlotte win Best Actress at Cannes ? Did it redeem the film ? I was not there . I was fleeing to my own country . I know that she didn ' t feel so good about standing [ on stage ] alone . But that ' s how it is . 영어 통 번역 시험 전문 학원 자료 Antichrist Director Lars von Trier 09 . 07 . 30