ANTICHRIST

From the director of Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville.

 This isn't a pretend horror flick, with violence you can shrug off or laugh off. It's the real thing, and I'll try to do the service of emphasizing—without specifying, so read on—the intensity of the horror, which begins as a couple's emotional burden after the death of their child, and the extent of the violence, which is sexual, psychosexual, symbolic, graphic, pornographic, misogynistic (though also mutual, as well as self-inflicted), and deeply, deeply disturbing. It's a two-character piece, unless you count a talking fox. The husband, an emotionally remote therapist, is played by Willem Dafoe. The wife, a writer working on a book called "Gynocide," is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Most of the action takes place in or near a cabin in the woods where the couple has gone in search of spiritual peace. To say they don't find it is the understatement of the movie year. --The Wall Street Journal