: Overcome by grief and guilt, the woman (Gainsbourg) suffers a severe breakdown. Her husband, a rationalist cognitive therapist, dismisses her medical treatment and decides to treat her himself.
If you haven’t seen it, I will spare you the graphic details. Suffice to say: genital mutilation, a grinding stone, and a wooden log feature in sequences that are so brutally realistic they have become legendary in horror circles. Gainsbourg won the Best Actress award at Cannes for this role, and she earned every ounce of that metal trophy in blood. movie antichrist 2009