rating : . the red lion in the village of hinxton , south of cambridge , backs on to the wellcome trust genome campus , where brilliant minds work on improving human and animal health . an experimental sort of place . experimentation is not on the menu at the red lion . the red lion : high expectations , but a rather drab sort of experience , according to our hotel inspector . nothing wrong with that , but it could be so much more inviting . at the 16th-century pub , you can eat cosily in the bar , or less atmospherically in the oak dinning room extension , where the lights are too bright . turn them off and light some candles . but there 's still a decent buzz . the staff are easy-going ; the food wholesome ; the wines fairly priced . a confident young man , who tells us he 's just started his own radio show , escorts us to our room . there are eight of them in a separate low-lying building at the back of the plot . ours is functional - and dull . we 're astonished that the website calls the accommodation ` stunning ' . one of the windows looks on to a brick wall . the garden was landscaped by a chelsea flower show gold award winner . it must have been a dreary year . but we like the dovecote . i count ten doves sitting contentedly and they do n't move an inch as we file past on our way to breakfast . we go for the full english , mainly because the table of cereals and fruit looks so unexciting . we had high expectations of our stay , not least because the website talks about its ` multi-award-winning status ' . they were n't met . the red lion . hinxton . cambridgeshire . cb10 1qy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- an infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love . charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist . '' 01799 530601 , www.redlionhinxton.co.uk . doubles from # 115 , b&b . rating : . the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg -rrb- is consumed with grief and guilt . she 's hospitalized and sedated for days and weeks before her husband -lrb- willem dafoe -rrb- , a therapist , insists she return home . he gets rid of all her medications . he will be her partner and her grief counselor , and he will see her through this , if only she will place her trust in him . not a good idea for either of them , as it turns out . halloween is nearly upon us , but `` antichrist '' is a mighty strange kind of horror movie , a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds of its running time before collapsing into a steaming heap of deranged sadism and supernatural symbolism in the outrageous third act . the movie 's peculiarity can be accounted for in three words : lars von trier . the danish provocateur twice won prestigious honors at the cannes film festival -lrb- with `` breaking the waves '' and `` dancer in the dark '' -rrb- and re-energized european art cinema in the 1990s with the dogme movement 's so-called `` vows of chastity . '' it 's not often that an art-house director takes up the implements to make a horror film , and for a while , `` antichrist '' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices , not least the severity that keeps the focus exclusively on this man and woman , neither of whom is named . the prologue -- the child 's death -- is a luxurious , slow-motion rhapsody of explicit sex , black-and-white photography and baroque music , commingling with the infant 's almost ersatz tragedy and finding perfunctory counterpoint in banal close-ups of the family 's washer-dryer . -lrb- there may be a deliberate echo here of the famous sex scene in nicolas roeg 's `` do n't look now , '' a far more keenly calibrated examination of grief succumbing to the supernatural . -rrb- . dafoe and gainsbourg are riveting as the ill-matched couple . he 's an implacable rationalist , urging her to confront her fears and venture into the darkest recesses of her psyche . she 's not sure he 's ready to share that torment with her . their bitter , sometimes sourly funny back-and-forth fleetingly echoes the railing , pugnacious and remorseful men and women we find again and again in strindberg and bergman . of course , when those great scandinavian dramatists wanted to shock us with the ferocity of the battle of the sexes and show a married couple going at it tooth and nail , their only weapons were words . mindful that he 's up against `` hostel , '' `` saw '' and the like , herr von trier ups the ante considerably . hiking to a log cabin in the mountains to uncover the apex of his wife 's fears -lrb- it could be anywhere , but let 's imagine we 're in the neighborhood of burkittsville -rrb- , the doctor 's little experiment in exposure therapy ends in crushed genitals and , uh , worse . much worse . it 's safe to say von trier knows this climax is over the top : `` chaos reigns ! '' announces a fox , in perfect english , just as the movie goes off the deep end . chaos reigns all right , and gainsbourg 's traumatized mom is transformed nonsensically into a raving psycho witch-bitch . this director has often been accused of misogyny for the punishments that befall his heroines -- spuriously , in my opinion . but this time the boot is on the other foot , and for once the charge seems to stick ; no matter that the first half of the movie suggests dafoe 's smug therapist is due for a comeuppance . apparently someone had a seizure when the movie showed at the new york film festival recently . when i caught up with it at the vancouver international film festival two weeks ago , the screening was punctuated with the single loudest shriek i 've ever heard in the theatre -- that would have been when gainsbourg gets out the scissors for a spot of ad hoc auto-surgery . there also was a very vociferous walk-out : a gentleman who fairly barked `` you get what you pay for , folks '' as he made for the exit a full 20 minutes before the end . that unhappy camper had a point . either von trier is barking up the wrong tree , or he 's pandering to the basest instincts of an audience that 's seen it all before and still demands more , more , more . beautifully shot by anthony dod mantle and acted with raw conviction , `` antichrist '' is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker , nothing more and nothing less . if you do n't believe me , go ask the talking fox . `` antichrist '' is not rated and runs 104 minutes . for entertainment weekly 's review , click here .
`` antichrist '' has met with vitriolic reaction at film festivals . lars von trier film stars willem dafoe , charlotte gainsbourg as troubled couple . horror goes from moody to over-the-top and graphic . to cnn.com 's tom charity , the film is a `` calamitous atrocity ''
rating : . the red lion in the village of hinxton , south of cambridge , backs on to the wellcome trust genome campus , where brilliant minds work on improving human and animal health . an experimental sort of place . experimentation is not on the menu at the red lion . the red lion : high expectations , but a rather drab sort of experience , according to our hotel inspector . nothing wrong with that , but it could be so much more inviting . at the 16th-century pub , you can eat cosily in the bar , or less atmospherically in the oak dinning room extension , where the lights are too bright . turn them off and light some candles . but there 's still a decent buzz . the staff are easy-going ; the food wholesome ; the wines fairly priced . a confident young man , who tells us he 's just started his own radio show , escorts us to our room . there are eight of them in a separate low-lying building at the back of the plot . ours is functional - and dull . we 're astonished that the website calls the accommodation ` stunning ' . one of the windows looks on to a brick wall . the garden was landscaped by a chelsea flower show gold award winner . it must have been a dreary year . but we like the dovecote . i count ten doves sitting contentedly and they do n't move an inch as we file past on our way to breakfast . we go for the full english , mainly because the table of cereals and fruit looks so unexciting . we had high expectations of our stay , not least because the website talks about its ` multi-award-winning status ' . they were n't met . the red lion . hinxton . cambridgeshire . cb10 1qy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- an infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love . charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist . '' 01799 530601 , www.redlionhinxton.co.uk . doubles from # 115 , b&b . rating : . the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg -rrb- is consumed with grief and guilt . she 's hospitalized and sedated for days and weeks before her husband -lrb- willem dafoe -rrb- , a therapist , insists she return home . he gets rid of all her medications . he will be her partner and her grief counselor , and he will see her through this , if only she will place her trust in him . not a good idea for either of them , as it turns out . halloween is nearly upon us , but `` antichrist '' is a mighty strange kind of horror movie , a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds of its running time before collapsing into a steaming heap of deranged sadism and supernatural symbolism in the outrageous third act . the movie 's peculiarity can be accounted for in three words : lars von trier . the danish provocateur twice won prestigious honors at the cannes film festival -lrb- with `` breaking the waves '' and `` dancer in the dark '' -rrb- and re-energized european art cinema in the 1990s with the dogme movement 's so-called `` vows of chastity . '' it 's not often that an art-house director takes up the implements to make a horror film , and for a while , `` antichrist '' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices , not least the severity that keeps the focus exclusively on this man and woman , neither of whom is named . the prologue -- the child 's death -- is a luxurious , slow-motion rhapsody of explicit sex , black-and-white photography and baroque music , commingling with the infant 's almost ersatz tragedy and finding perfunctory counterpoint in banal close-ups of the family 's washer-dryer . -lrb- there may be a deliberate echo here of the famous sex scene in nicolas roeg 's `` do n't look now , '' a far more keenly calibrated examination of grief succumbing to the supernatural . -rrb- . dafoe and gainsbourg are riveting as the ill-matched couple . he 's an implacable rationalist , urging her to confront her fears and venture into the darkest recesses of her psyche . she 's not sure he 's ready to share that torment with her . their bitter , sometimes sourly funny back-and-forth due for a comeuppance . apparently someone had a seizure when the movie showed at the new york film festival recently . when i caught up with it at the vancouver international film festival two weeks ago , the screening was punctuated with the single loudest shriek i 've ever heard in the theatre -- that would have been when gainsbourg gets out the scissors for a spot of ad hoc auto-surgery . there also was a very vociferous walk-out : a gentleman who fairly barked `` you get what you pay for , folks '' as he made for the exit a full 20 minutes before the end . that unhappy camper had a point . either von trier is barking up the wrong tree , or he 's pandering to the basest instincts of an audience that 's seen it all before and still demands more , more , more . beautifully shot by anthony dod mantle and acted with raw conviction , `` antichrist '' is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker , nothing more and nothing less . if you do n't believe me , go ask the talking fox . `` antichrist '' is not rated and runs 104 minutes . for entertainment weekly 's review , click here .
rating : . the red lion in the village of hinxton , south of cambridge , backs on to the wellcome trust genome campus , where brilliant minds work on improving human and animal health . an experimental sort of place . experimentation is not on the menu at the red lion . the red lion : high expectations , but a rather drab sort of experience , according to our hotel inspector . nothing wrong with that , but it could be so much more inviting . at the 16th-century pub , you can eat cosily in the bar , or less atmospherically in the oak dinning room extension , where the lights are too bright . turn them off and light some candles . but there 's still a decent buzz . the staff are easy-going ; the food wholesome ; the wines fairly priced . a confident young man , who tells us he 's just started his own radio show , escorts us to our room . there are eight of them in a separate low-lying building at the back of the plot . ours is functional - and dull . we 're astonished that the website calls the accommodation ` stunning ' . one of the windows looks on to a brick wall . the garden was landscaped by a chelsea flower show gold award winner . it must have been a dreary year . but we like the dovecote . i count ten doves sitting contentedly and they do n't move an inch as we file past on our way to breakfast . we go for the full english , mainly because the table of cereals and fruit looks so unexciting . we had high expectations of our stay , not least because the website talks about its ` multi-award-winning status ' . they were n't met . the red lion . hinxton . cambridgeshire . cb10 1qy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- an infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love . charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist . '' 01799 530601 , www.redlionhinxton.co.uk . doubles from # 115 , b&b . rating : . the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg -rrb- is consumed with grief and guilt . she 's hospitalized and sedated for days and weeks before her husband -lrb- willem dafoe -rrb- , a therapist , insists she return home . he gets rid of all her medications . he will be her partner and her grief counselor , and he will see her through this , if only she will place her trust in him . not a good idea for either of them , as it turns out . halloween is nearly upon us , but `` antichrist '' is a mighty strange kind of horror movie , a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds of its running time before collapsing into a steaming heap of deranged sadism and supernatural symbolism in the outrageous third act . the movie 's peculiarity can be accounted for in three words : lars von trier . the danish provocateur twice won prestigious honors at the cannes film festival -lrb- with `` breaking the waves '' and `` dancer in the dark '' -rrb- and re-energized european art cinema in the 1990s with the dogme movement 's so-called `` vows of chastity . '' it 's not often that an art-house director takes up the implements to make a horror film , and for a while , `` antichrist '' compels with its anguished intensity and audacious stylistic choices , not least the severity that keeps the focus exclusively on this man and woman , neither of whom is named . the prologue -- the child 's death -- is fleetingly echoes the railing , pugnacious and remorseful men and women we find again and again in strindberg and bergman . of course , when those great scandinavian dramatists wanted to shock us with the ferocity of the battle of the sexes and show a married couple going at it tooth and nail , their only weapons were words . mindful that he 's up against `` hostel , '' `` saw '' and the like , herr von trier ups the ante considerably . hiking to a log cabin in the mountains to uncover the apex of his wife 's fears -lrb- it could be anywhere , but let 's imagine we 're in the neighborhood of burkittsville -rrb- , the doctor 's little experiment in exposure due for a comeuppance . apparently someone had a seizure when the movie showed at the new york film festival recently . when i caught up with it at the vancouver international film festival two weeks ago , the screening was punctuated with the single loudest shriek i 've ever heard in the theatre -- that would have been when gainsbourg gets out the scissors for a spot of ad hoc auto-surgery . there also was a very vociferous walk-out : a gentleman who fairly barked `` you get what you pay for , folks '' as he made for the exit a full 20 minutes before the end . that unhappy camper had a point . either von trier is barking up the wrong tree , or he 's pandering to the basest instincts of an audience that 's seen it all before and still demands more , more , more . beautifully shot by anthony dod mantle and acted with raw conviction , `` antichrist '' is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker , nothing more and nothing less . if you do n't believe me , go ask the talking fox . `` antichrist '' is not rated and runs 104 minutes . for entertainment weekly 's review , click here .
rating. the red lion in the village hinxton, south cambridge backs on the wellcome trust genome campus where brilliant minds work improving an experimental sort place. experimentation is on the red lion. the red lion : high expectations, but a rather drab sort experience according our hotel inspector nothing wrong, could so inviting. at the 16th-century pub, you eat cosily, less atmospherically the oak dinning room extension the lights too turn them light. but there 's still a decent buzz. the staff are easy- ; food wholesome fairly priced. a confident young man, tells 's just started escorts there eight of a separate low-lying building the plot. ours functional - and dull. we 're astonished the website calls the accommodation ` stunning. one the windows looks on to a brick wall. the garden was landscaped a chelsea flower show gold award winner. it must. but we like the dovecote. i count ten doves sitting contentedly and they do n't move as we file past on breakfast. we go for the full english, mainly the table of cereals fruit looks unexciting. we had high expectations our stay, not least the website talks its ` multi-award-winning status they n't met. the red lion. hinxton. cambridgeshire. cb10 1qy. -lrb- cnn -- an infant falls while making love. charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist. '' 01799 530601, www.redlionhinxton.co.uk. doubles from # 115, b&b. rating. the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg is consumed with grief guilt. she 's hospitalized sedated days -lrb- willem dafoe, a therapist, insists return. he gets rid all her medications. he will her partner her grief counselor, see, if place not a good idea either, as turns. halloween is nearly, `` antichrist '' a mighty strange kind horror movie a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds before collapsing supernatural symbolism in the outrageous third act the movie 's peculiarity can accounted three words lars von trier. the danish provocateur twice won prestigious honors the cannes film festival -lrb- with `` breaking the waves '' `` dancer the dark re in the dogme movement 's so-called `` vows. '' it 's often an art-house director takes up the implements to, for, `` antichrist compels with its anguished intensity, not least the severity that keeps the focus exclusively this man woman neither named. the prologue -- the child 's death a luxurious, slow-motion rhapsody explicit sex, commingling the infant 's almost ersatz tragedy finding perfunctory counterpoint banal close-ups -lrb- there may a deliberate echo here the famous sex scene nicolas roeg `` do n't look now, '' a far more keenly calibrated examination grief succumbing supernatural. -rrb-. dafoe and gainsbourg riveting as the ill-matched couple. he 's an implacable rationalist, urging her confront venture she 's sure he ready share that torment. their bitter, sometimes sourly funny back fleetingly echoes the railing, pugnacious and remorseful men we find again strindberg bergman of course, when those great scandinavian dramatists wanted shock the ferocity the battle show a married couple going at tooth their only weapons words mindful 's up `` hostel, '' saw '' the like, herr von trier ups considerably hiking to a log cabin to uncover the apex his wife 's fears -lrb- it could anywhere, let 's imagine we the neighborhood burkittsville -rrb-, the doctor 's little experiment exposure therapy ends crushed genitals, uh, worse much worse. it 's safe von trier knows this climax over : `` chaos reigns! '' announces a fox, in perfect english just goes chaos reigns all right, gainsbourg 's traumatized mom is transformed nonsensically a raving psycho witch-bitch this director often misogyny the punishments befall his heroines -- spuriously, but this the boot on, for once the charge seems stick ; no that the first half suggests dafoe 's smug therapist due apparently someone a seizure when the movie showed at the new york film festival recently. when caught it at the vancouver international film festival two, the screening punctuated the single loudest shriek ' the theatre -- that would when gainsbourg gets out the scissors for a spot ad hoc auto-surgery there also was a very vociferous walk-out : a gentleman fairly barked `` you get, folks '' as made for a full 20. that unhappy camper had a point. either von trier is barking, 's pandering the basest instincts an audience seen it still demands more beautifully shot anthony dod mantle and acted raw conviction, `` antichrist '' a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker, nothing if do n't believe, go ask the talking fox. `` antichrist '' rated and runs 104 minutes. for entertainment weekly 's review, click
rating : . the red lion in the village of hinxton , south of cambridge , backs on to the wellcome trust genome campus , where brilliant minds work on improving human and animal health . an experimental sort of place . experimentation is not on the menu at the red lion . the red lion : high expectations , but a rather drab sort of experience , according to our hotel inspector . nothing wrong with that , but it could be so much more inviting . at the 16th-century pub , you can eat cosily in the bar , or less atmospherically in the oak dinning room extension , where the lights are too bright . turn them off and light some candles . but there 's still a decent buzz . the staff are easy-going ; the food wholesome ; the wines fairly priced . a confident young man , who tells us he 's just started his own radio show , escorts us to our room . there are eight of them in a separate low-lying building at the back of the plot . ours is functional - and dull . we 're astonished that the website calls the accommodation ` stunning ' . one of the windows looks on to a brick wall . the garden was landscaped by a chelsea flower show gold award winner . it must have been a dreary year . but we like the dovecote . i count ten doves sitting contentedly and they do n't move an inch as we file past on our way to breakfast . we go for the full english , mainly because the table of cereals and fruit looks so unexciting . we had high expectations of our stay , not least because the website talks about its ` multi-award-winning status ' . they were n't met . the red lion . hinxton . cambridgeshire . cb10 1qy . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- an infant falls to his death from a second-story window while his parents are making love . charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist . '' 01799 530601 , www.redlionhinxton.co.uk . doubles from # 115 , b&b . rating : . the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg -rrb- is consumed with grief and guilt . she 's hospitalized and sedated for days and weeks before her husband -lrb- willem dafoe -rrb- , a therapist , insists she return home . he gets rid of all her medications . he will be her partner and her grief counselor , and he will see her through this , if only she will place her trust in him . not a good idea for either of them , as it turns out . halloween is nearly upon us , but `` antichrist '' is a mighty strange kind of horror movie , a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds of its running time before collapsing into a steaming heap of deranged sadism and supernatural symbolism in the outrageous third act . the due for a comeuppance . apparently someone had a seizure when the movie showed at the new york film festival recently . when i caught up with it at the vancouver international film festival two weeks ago , the screening was punctuated with the single loudest shriek i 've ever heard in the theatre -- that would have been when gainsbourg gets out the scissors for a spot of ad hoc auto-surgery . there also was a very vociferous walk-out : a gentleman who fairly barked `` you get what you pay for , folks '' as he made for the exit a full 20 minutes before the end . that unhappy camper had a point . either von trier is barking up the wrong tree , or he 's pandering to the basest instincts of an audience that 's seen it all before and still demands more , more , more . beautifully shot by anthony dod mantle and acted with raw conviction , `` antichrist '' is a calamitous atrocity from a major filmmaker , nothing more and nothing less . if you do n't believe me , go ask the talking fox . `` antichrist '' is not rated and runs 104 minutes . for entertainment weekly 's review , click here .
 The text appears to be a review or rating of a place called "The Red Lion" in Hinxton, Cambridge. The reviewer seems to have mixed feelings about their experience, mentioning both positive and negative aspects. They praise the atmosphere, food, and service but criticize the high expectations not being met, the experimental nature of the place, and some issues with the staff. The review is quite detailed and provides specific examples to support their opinions.