Lars Von Trier's 'Antichrist' Premieres – and Disturbs – at Cannes

Roger Ebert: I rarely find a serious film by a major director to be this disturbing. Its images are a fork in the eye. Its cruelty is unrelenting. Its despair is profound. Von Trier has a way of affecting his viewers like that. After his “Breaking the Waves” premiered at Cannes in 1996, Georgia Brown of the Village Voice fled to the rest room in emotional turmoil and Janet Maslin of the New York Times followed to comfort her. After this one, Richard and Mary Corliss blogged at Time.com that “Antichrist” presented the spectacle of a director going mad.