Duration: 1h 48min

 

The primal darkness of Walpurgis Night meets the anniversary of one of contemporary cinema’s most controversial auteurs. Lars von Trier turns 70! We celebrate this at Kai Cinema with a film that is as wild, as disturbing, and as brilliant as his body of work – Antichrist.

Walpurgis Night is a moment when nature, mythology, and the darker side of the human psyche rise to the surface. Lars von Trier’s Antichrist embodies all of these elements with extraordinary intensity. This is not a film that tells the story of Walpurgis Night – it is Walpurgis Night.

Antichrist is a 2009 arthouse horror film. Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg portray a grieving couple who, after the tragic death of their child, retreat to a secluded forest cabin called Eden. There, nature turns hostile and the woman’s psyche begins to unravel, revealing violent, mythological, and ritualistic undertones.

For her role in what became the most controversial film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Charlotte Gainsbourg won the Best Actress award (Palme d’Or).

 

Come and celebrate a night when nature, mythology, and cinema collide.

Tickets can be bought from the internet or at Kai.

 

Watch the trailer here

 

Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland (2009)

Director: Lars von Trier

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Language: English

Subtitles: Estonian, Russian

Distribution: Estinfilm OÜ

 

We also invite everyone to visit the exhibition “Exploded View” at Kai Art Center gallery, where new and recent works by Estonian artist Paul Kuimet and Norwegian artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl consider the relationship between visual representation and the lived experience of spaces and objects.

 

When visiting both the exhibition and the film screening on the same day, a combo ticket is available for €15 (discounted €10). The gallery is open until 18:00, so with a combo ticket we kindly ask you to visit the exhibition before the film screening begins.