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Antichrist: a hack job in a twisted Eden Lars von Trier's controversy magnet is out on DVD this week, but if you're still unsure if you're up for 104 minutes of wilful taboo transgression and genital mutilation, let Paul MacInnes's condensed screenplay take the strainANTICHRISTBy Paul MacInnes, with apologies to Lars von TrierSCENE 1EXT: Day. The countryside of Washington State – in most films, a charming rural backdrop. Here, it's a vision from Beelzebub's nightmares. Sitting in a clearing are a BIRD, a DEER and a FOX. The FOX chats away.FOX Hi, I'm Tarkovsky! Welcome to my woodland wonderland! I'm here with my great buddies, Dudley the deer and Simone the squawking bird. We like to frolic in the long grass, forage for berries and, also, stand as symbols of evil.DEER That's right, Tarkovsky!BIRD Especially the last bit! Squawk!FOX Inside that hut over there are our friends, Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.DEER They're grieving, aren't they Tarkovsky!FOX That's right Dudley, grieving for their lost child.BIRD But they sure are going about it a funny way!FOX Let's go over and have a look, shall we? GRRRRASSSSRRFGGGGH! CHAOS REIGNS! Oops, sorry about that!The animals toddle off. Abruptly, the scene changes, as if the devil herself were twisting your head in a different direction, like women do. This twisting is soundtracked by a saw grinder in a windtunnel. SCENE 2INT: Night. A remote log cabin not-at-all-ironically named Eden. Therapist WILLEM DAFOE and his wife CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG are relaxing over a log fire, mutilating each others' genitals. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG So there I was, just reading centuries-old works of pagan literature, when I realised that nature is Satan's church.WILLEM DAFOE That's an interesting concept darling, I think I've got a thought exercise for tha ... AAAAIIIIAAAIIIOOOWWWIIIEEEEE!CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Oh, I'm sorry, did my smashing your bits with a two-by-four hurt a little?WILLEM DAFOE That it did, petal, but I understand you've had a transformative experience and are, in fact, merely exhibiting the primal evil that exists in all women.CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Oh, darling, how lucky I am to have a man as understanding as you. Now hold still for a tick, I'm just going to cut off my labia. Won't be a mo!Another twisty cut, another four bars of the devil's windtunnel. If you have managed to hold on to your lunch you might have come to the conclusion that some of the cinematography is actually quite beautiful. Which is funny, when you think about it.SCENE 3WILLEM DAFOE is sitting with TARKOVSKY on a hillside, a few hundred metres down from Eden. WILLEM DAFOE is covered in blood and bruises. The FOX has been licking its own genitals. They are musing on the events of the day.FOXShame you had to strangle your wife to death in the end.WILLEM DAFOE I guess, but otherwise it might never have stopped!FOX What, the psychological and physical torture?WILLEM DAFOE No, the film.FOX Oh.WILLEM DAFOE Still, we had some laughs, didn't we?FOX We sure did. And don't let's forget the liberal taboos we wilfully transgressed along the way!WILLEM DAFOE Ha, I guess so. Tarkovsky, you really are a pal. FOX Awww. GRRRRASSSSRRFGGGGH! CHAOS REIGNS! Sorry!WILLEM DAFOE Hey, what's that?Coming up over the hill are hundreds of ambulating corpses, their faces unsettlingly obscured by the latest digital effects technology.FOX Oh, them? They're the corpses of all the other people who have died on this land, this crucible of evil.WILLEM DAFOE Gulp! It looks like they want something! What could it be?FOX Probably just their money back ...Lars von TrierPaul MacInnesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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Exit Through the Gift Shop and enter the mind of Banksy Banksy's quixotic debut film is not only a triumph of guerrilla marketing; it's the closest the anonymous graffiti artist has come to unmasking himself Demetrios Matheou on Michael Winterbottom's The Killer InsideAll our coverage of the premiere of Chris Morris's Four LionsMore from SundanceBy the time the world premiere of Banksy's debut movie, Exit Through the Gift Shop, unfolded at Sundance on Sunday night, the master of mystique had already sprayed his aerosol aura over Park City. Days earlier, five works attributed to the celebrated urban artist had sprung up on walls around town, inspiring ripples of admiration and indignation.As guerrilla marketing goes it may be a long time before festivalgoers see anything as good as this again. Indeed, the air of mystery remained intact throughout the enterprise, from the moment Exit Through the Gift Shop was unveiled as a surprise screening last week to, well, the end of the movie. Banksy, little surprise, did not attend in person (although he could have strolled into the 446-seat Library Centre Theatre and we would have been none the wiser), choosing instead to send a good-humoured note that invited us to enjoy ourselves.And we did. Exit Through the Gift Shop is very funny and may well turn out to be the most entertaining movie at the festival. Ostensibly a documentary about Banksy's relationship with an impressionable French film-maker/stalker, the movie highlights that unquenchable thirst among some people for self-expression. It also explores another side of the equation, when the urge turns into rampant self-promotion.In this regard Exit Through the Gift Shop is a modern-day Frankenstein story. Banksy is the unwitting doctor, who befriends his monster-to-be Thierry Guetta as the latter follows the graffiti god on his artistic escapades. Over time Guetta becomes a kind of assistant on these covert missions and earns Banksy's trust, although he is only allowed to film his subject from behind. Eventually Guetta decides he wants to become an urban artist too. Banksy doesn't protest, and his associate adopts the moniker Mr Brainwash and proceeds to issue forth a diarrhoea of derivative dross that results in a wildly ambitious exhibition in Los Angeles.The inversion doesn't end there. I don't know anything about how to make a film, Banksy muses, but that didn't stop Thierry. And so he records the preparation of Mr Brainwash's show and in the process strings together a nice potted history of urban art from thousands of hours of footage shot by Guetta before they met. Sitting in shadow and speaking through a voice modifier, Banksy recalls like an ironic Greek chorus the bizarre sequence of events surrounding his peculiar friend. He doesn't show his face, but reveals himself in a far more satisfying way. His droll, mildly bemused commentary, coupled with narration by Rhys Ifans, illustrate the artist in ways that no exclusive unmasking by a media outlet could ever achieve.The crowd loved it, but we must be careful because this is Sundance, where an audience will muster sustained whoops and applause every time a volunteer scurries across the stage before a screening. However, on this occasion, it seemed genuine. All the major film buyers were in attendance, and it would seem only a matter of time before the story of the quixotic Frenchman and his wry British mentor plays out on a far broader canvas than the screen at the Library Centre Theatre.Sundance film festivalBanksyDocumentaryJeremy Kayguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |