Quotes of the Day

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Over at IFC they chatted with the Danish provocateur Lars Von Trier about his provocative film Antichrist and surprising absolutely no one he says some provocative things. Here are the ones I found interesting. First up, I didn't know this:

IFC: Charlotte Gainsbourg embodies her role so audaciously that I can't even imagine another actress in the part, but I'm still curious why your original choice, Eva Green, didn't work out?

Lars: She would've worked out, but her agents were very much against the porn aspect of the film, and we were into strange negotiations where I had to say how many times I wanted to see a nipple. At a certain point, I found out that's not the way I can work. Then Charlotte came and was, as you said, a gift for the film.

That seems weird, that Eva Green, oft-naked star of The Dreamers, would have nipple issues, doesn't it? And anyway nipples were the least of it when it came to the film Antichrist. I scarcely remember nipples for all the other junk I was staring at.

Secondly, this made me chuckle:

IFC: Were you told about the "Chaos Reigns" T-shirts that were made during Fantastic Fest?

Lars: No, I was not. But that's a good idea because chaos really works. It rules. [laughs]

IFC: If you tell me your T-shirt size, I'll see if I can get you one.

Lars: Yeah, but you can see this T-shirt that I have on now is too small. I should actually have a bigger T-shirt. I don't know why everybody thinks I'm very, very small. This T-shirt I have now is Ingmar Bergman on a cloud. It was given to me a week ago. I'm not really sure he is on a cloud. I think maybe he went straight to hell, but that we don't know.

Silly man, Ingmar Bergman is in an eternal harshly lit black-and-white purgatory, duh.

Antichrist, by the way, has defeated my critical abilities, and I seem unable to write anything about it. I thought I was fine with it, that it was a beautiful if dreary thing, and then I got home and couldn't sleep that night and began to become unhinged in the darkness of my bedroom. It temporarily wheedled its way into my brain in a not enjoyable manner. I sort of don't like even thinking about the movie. So there's that.
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