My all-time favorite director, Lars von Trier, has a new film coming out. It's called Antichrist and it looks awesome (to me). The lead actress, Charlotte Gainsborg, just won Best Actress at Cannes despite the fact that much of the audience for the film walked out during the screening- extremely graphic depictions of non-specified 'abuse' being the only reason publicly cited. Um, Lars von Trier could film two hours of puppies being hacked into pieces and i'd probably watch it anyway. He's awesome. He's also notoriously difficult, ill-tempered and unstable. What is not to love, i ask you?
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Below is the trailer for a great documentary about Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth called The 5 Obstructions, in which von Trier challenges his cinematic idol, Leth, to a five-tiered test revolving around Leth's most famous work, the experimental short film The Perfect Human. You really get a sense of von Trier's misanthropy, which is in full force throughout. I also recommend watching any and all interviews with him- he never fails to be an engaging subject.
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