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'Anti-prize' for Lars von Trier's 'misogynist' movie
'Anti-prize' for Lars von Trier's 'misogynist' movie
Lars von Trier's controversial "Antichrist", was honoured with an "anti-prize" at Cannes by the Ecumenical Jury. The Dane's offering was labelled the "most misogynist movie", a decision the festival director denounced as a "call for censorship".

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AFP - Cannes entered the final straight with more controversy Saturday over gothic thriller "Antichrist" after the festival director denounced an "anti-prize" it received as an attempt at censorship.
  
Lars von Trier's film was declared "the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world" by an Ecumenical Jury which every year hands out a prize to a Cannes film that celebrates spiritual values.
  

This year it went to Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric," but the jury was so shocked by Von Trier's film -- which features a shot of a clitoris sliced off with rusty scissors -- that it felt the need to award a special "anti-prize."
  
The jury president, the Romanian film-maker Radu Mihaileanu, said in a statement read out to AFP that Von Trier was suggesting with his film that "woman should be burnt at the stake so that man can finally stand up."
  
Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux reacted furiously.
  
It was a "ridiculous decision that borders on a call for censorship, (it is) scandalous coming from an 'ecumenical' jury which what is more is headed by a film-maker," he told AFP.
  
Critics gasped, jeered and hooted -- and at least four people fainted -- during a preview of "Antichrist," one of 20 films competing for the Palme d'Or top award to be handed out Sunday.

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can't wait to see the film

by adam and eve (not verified) - 26/05/2009 - 09:09

Ecumenical Jury? What? Why? These people belong in the FEAR industry, not in art, especially filmmaking. When will people realize that ART is a personal expression, a personal creation. If you do not like it, so be it, but do not slander it. I am so tired of these ecumenical moral guardians of peoples behavior, while they having a great time molesting children and spreading lies.

White Ribbon VS. AntiChrist

by Anonyme (not verified) - 25/05/2009 - 04:58

Ahhh yes. Let's effectively FOREVER worship matriarchy (as too Judaic maternal bloodlines) and FOREVER condemn anti-semitism in this so-called patriarchal world ..... while we FOREVER belittle and ignominiously defeat Christian patriarchy ( ala Jesus's "going about father's business"), labeling thought-provoking works attending this issue as "misogynist", so-called Ecumenical Jury! And while we're at IT, let's FOREVER be teased by full female frontal nudity in hundreds, if not thousands , of near mainstream films while not one near mainstream film is EVER allowed to show full frontal male nudity! Should shocking violence go hand-in-hand with this perverted sexual repression FOREVER, let's all live on in ignorance FOREVER and let no one give mind to why!!!!

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