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“…goes beyond malevolence into the monstrous. Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief.” … “Whether this is a bad, good or great film is entirely beside the point. It is an audacious spit in the eye of society. It says we harbor an undreamed-of capacity for evil. It transforms a psychological treatment into torture undreamed of in the dungeons of history. (...) Von Trier is not so much making a film about violence as making a film to inflict violence upon us, perhaps as a salutary experience. It’s been reported that he suffered from depression during and after the film. You can tell. This is the most despairing film I’ve ever have seen.”

Roger Ebert (famoso crítico de cinema norte-americano, sobre o novo filme de Lars Von Triers. Antichrist)

(*) Wow. Que opinião interessante. Cada vez tenho mais curiosidade. O que nos reservará Antichrist realmente?