"Antichrist" *1/2 (out of four): If Luis Bunuel directed an unholy union of "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Friday the 13th", the resulting beast would bare some resemblance to Lars von Trier's "Antichrist".

The film is divided into four chapters (Grief, Pain, Despair, The Three Beggars), a prologue, and an epilogue. "The Three Beggars" may be a reference to the appearance of a fox, deer, and crow, as well as to the themes of Grief, Pain, and Despair. The urge to invest meaning, symbolic or otherwise, into "Antichrist" should be resisted, as the film follows a dream logic (or rather, nightmare logic) that is both its strength and, more often, its weakness.

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