Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Openly gay director Lars Von Trier seems to court controversy.
Throughout his career, Von Trier has divided critics and audiences, with some hailing his work as avant-garde, ultra-feminist masterpieces while others deride him as a pompous, exploitative misogynist.Take, for example, Von Trier’s 2009 horror film Antichrist.
The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as characters identified only as “She” and “He.” While making love in the shower one day, their toddler son manages to climb out a bedroom window falling to his death.