

They can vote as follows: (1) Must win the Palme d'Or (2) Three stars ("Passionately") (3) Two stars ("Good") (4) One star ("One likes it a little") (5) "Pas de tout"-"not at all"). Le Film Francais asks its national panel to vote on every film in the Official Selection and the Un Certain Regard section. A surprising 44% of the early Tomatometer critics gave positive reviews.

Which group hated or approved of the movie more? Reflect that French critics are often noted for more intellectual, theoretical reviews, and American critics are more often populist. It is fascinating to me that there's a sharp divide between American, Canadian and British critics monitored by the Tomatometer, and a cross-section of French critics monitored by Le Film Francais, a French equivalent to Variety, which is published daily at the festival. I can understand why this confrontational film has so sharply divided its early critics.

After this one, Richard and Mary Corliss blogged at that " Antichrist" presented the spectacle of a director going mad.Įnough time has passed since I saw the film for me to process my visceral reaction, and take a few steps back. After his " Breaking the Waves" premiered at Cannes in 1996, Georgia Brown of the Village Voice fled to the rest room in emotional turmoil and Janet Maslin of the New York Times followed to comfort her. Von Trier has a way of affecting his viewers like that. I rarely find a serious film by a major director to be this disturbing.
