2 Antichrist (2009)
Actors who stripped down: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Why they’re fully nude: Random acts of sex and violence.
One almost doesn’t know where to begin when it comes to dissecting the parade of nudity that is Antichrist. It starts from the get-go, with a close-up sex scene, as the couple known as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) make love while their young son climbs out the window and falls to his death. From there, it just gets darker…and stranger.
Sex becomes a weapon of destruction in the hands of director Lars von Trier, who was very open about the severe bouts of depression he was suffering from during the scripting and production of this film. Which might help explain its utterly anarchic tone and truly horrific imagery, including a self-administered female circumcision. Just when you think you understand where it’s headed, it veers onto another rocky—and painful—path. A date movie this ain’t.
