Filmmaker's Depression Influences 'Antichrist'

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Lars von Trier won't get on an airplane and sometimes he won't travel by any vehicle.

The Danish director frets that if he doesn't follow strict, self- imposed filmmaking rules, something bad will happen. (He was the brains behind the austere Dogme 95 manifesto, whose followers rejected special effects, camera shortcuts and other common movie tricks.)

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Filmmaker's Depression Influences 'Antichrist'

His latest film, the controversial "Antichrist," deals in extreme apprehension of nature and sex.

Beautiful and cerebral, shocking and revolting, it charts the disintegration of a couple (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe) whose toddler son jumps out of a window after seeing his parents make explicit love.

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