Grief and Truth at the Beginning: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
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Author:
Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano
Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid lorenzojavier.torres.hortelano@urjc.es
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In Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009), the inverted story of a modern-day Adam (He) and Eve (She) and the death of their son, we witness the deep wound that von Trier himself suffered when his mother revealed to him a truth. He would later reveal this truth to the general public, and I follow the film’s own allusive structure by returning to this revelation only at the end of this report.