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Antichrist
was called the most shocking movie ever to be shown at
Cannes. Shot on location in the forests of North
Rhine-Westphalia, the film is set, so one infers from an
address on an envelope, in the Pacific Northwest of the
United States and it unfolds in four chapters, framed by a
prologue and an epilogue. In the prologue, shot in
slowmotion
black and
white, a married couple played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte
Gainsbourg make passionate love in the bathroom of their
fourth-floor apartment. While the couple are having
sex, their tiny infant son crawls out of the window of the
seventh floor apartment and falls to his death….
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