Antichrist' Star Willem Dafoe Takes A Leap Of Faith Into The Taboo

TORONTO - Strange timing: With hordes of moviegoers turning out this month for the minimalist, gore-free "Paranormal Activity," along comes Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, delivering unto the art-house and video-on-demand marketplace a film that is maximalist, not minimalist; laced with images of outlandish cruelty and violence; and a cinematic "scream" (the writer-director's word) produced by an artist in the grip of a crippling depression, whose nightmarish scenes from a marriage would make Freud, Jung and August Strindberg weep.