Von Trier: “I am the best film director in the world” by Eugene Hernandez (May 18, 2009)
Lars Von Trier: Director’s Confession Two years ago, I suffered from depression. It was a new experience for me. Everything, no matter what, seemed unimportant, trivial. I couldn’t work. Six months later, just as an exercise, I wrote a script. It was a kind of therapy, but also a search, a test to see if I would ever make another film. The script was finished and filmed without much enthusiasm, made as it was using about half of my physical and intellectual capacity. The work on the script did not follow my usual modus operandi. Scenes were added for no reason. Images were composed free of logic or dramatic thinking. They often came from dreams I was having at the time, or dreams I’d had earlier in my life. Once again, the subject was “Nature,” but in a different and more direct way than before. In a more personal way. The film does not contain any specific moral code and only has what some might call ‘the bare necessities’ in the way of a plot. I read Strindberg when I was young. I read with enthusiasm the things he wrote before he went to Paris to become an alchemist and during his stay there ... the period later called his “inferno crisis” - was “Antichrist” my Inferno Crisis? My affinity with Strindberg? In any case, I can offer no excuse for “Antichrist”. Other than my absolute belief in the film - the most important film of my entire career! Lars von Trier, Copenhagen, 25/03/09.
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BROKEN EMBRACES
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Interesting. He tells the truth, about what is in his head, and we don’t like it. But what do we know, about what is in everyone else’s head? Maybe, it is much worse, or maybe, he is much more the norm? who knows? he seems childlike, naive and immature to some degree…......but obviously it is fresh, new and drawing some attention, so by definition, leading edge? I do like his refreshing telling of the truth as he sees it, and I also instantly recognize how misinterpreted it will be. Making what you want to make for your own purposes and no others, this is the definition of most artists, as opposed to business people, I think. Of course, if you were to ask me to invest in his next film, I’d would probabaly politely decline at this point! ha!
Although Lars is rather pretentious I think he is merely yanking the chain of the press [critics] here. It is certainly helping market his film - which is what any director wants. A distributor is sure to follow.
I am a script writer and as far as I am concerned Lars von Trier is the only person that exists on the entire planet that can direct what I write. He is a misunderstood genius; our modernday Fellini. Go on Lars !
Paul de Leonardo.
Yikes! I’ve to confess that, as a horror filmmaker, I would like to see it before I can make any judgements. Not sure if or how he’ll distribute, considering this reception.
Haha. Good for him. Sounds like something to be excited for.