-lrb- cnn -rrb- -- the united kingdom has royal baby watch . zoo atlanta had panda baby watch . now washington has stinky flower watch . -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 . '' 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 . the enormous plant known as the corpse flower is expected to bloom and stink up the grounds at the united states botanic garden conservatory sometime this week . it will be the first flowering of this titan arum -lrb- amorphophallus titanum -rrb- , also known as the stinky plant , which has lived at the garden since 2007 . the plant does n't have an annual blooming cycle ; it can wait years or even decades between cycles . it 's expected to heat up , start smelling like dead animals and bloom overnight or in the early morning hours -- though exactly which night it will happen is not known . the heat and smell is to attract pollinator insects such as dung beetles in its natural habitat , said ari novy , the garden 's public programs manager . the garden does n't have any such beetles but resident flies could come calling , he said . impala escapes cheetahs by leaping into tourists ' suv . once the garden confirmed on monday , july 8 , that the plant was going to bloom , staffers moved quickly to display it publicly on july 11 . a native of sumatra , indonesia , this particular plant is part of the garden 's collection of 14 corpse flowers . they are rarely put on display because they require a lot of heat and humidity , which is why they are grown at the garden 's production greenhouses in southeast washington -- rarely open to the public . now the star of the garden , the plant is growing quickly . it was 52 inches tall when it was put on display on july 11 . by saturday morning , it measured 62 inches high and 69 inches by sunday night . tuesday morning , it was 79 inches tall . once completely open , it can stay in bloom for 24 to 48 hours , and then it will collapse quickly . 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 . the u.s. botanic garden last displayed a blooming titan arum in 2007 . at least seven u.s. institutions have at least one titan arum in each of its collections . the garden will have extended hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on tuesday and wednesday . if you ca n't make it to the nation 's capital watch it open up online on the garden 's live flower cam . 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 . the national botanic garden of belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last week , attracting about 4,000 visitors over three days , said garden spokesman franck hidvegi . it previously bloomed in 2008 and 2011 . the garden has another four plants in its greenhouses , but hidvegi said they are still too young to bloom .
`` 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 ''
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 . the u.s. botanic garden last displayed a blooming titan arum in 2007 . at least seven u.s. institutions have at least one titan arum in each of its collections . the garden will have extended hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on tuesday and wednesday . if you ca n't make it to the nation 's capital watch it open up online on the garden 's live flower cam . 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 . the national botanic garden of belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last week , attracting about 4,000 visitors over three days , said garden spokesman franck hidvegi . it previously bloomed in 2008 and 2011 . the garden has another four plants in its greenhouses , but hidvegi said they are still too young to bloom .
-lrb- cnn -rrb- -- the united kingdom has royal baby watch . zoo atlanta had panda baby watch . now washington has stinky flower watch . -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 . '' 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 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 . the u.s. botanic garden last displayed a blooming titan arum in 2007 . at least seven u.s. institutions have at least one titan arum in each of its collections . the garden will have extended hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on tuesday and wednesday . if you ca n't make it to the nation 's capital watch it open up online on the garden 's live flower cam . 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 . the national botanic garden of belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last week , attracting about 4,000 visitors over three days , said garden spokesman franck hidvegi . it previously bloomed in 2008 and 2011 . the garden has another four plants in its greenhouses , but hidvegi said they are still too young to bloom .
-lrb- cnn -- the united kingdom has royal baby watch. zoo atlanta had panda baby watch. now washington has stinky flower watch. -lrb- cnn -- an infant falls while making love. charlotte gainsbourg and willem dafoe star in the lars von trier drama `` antichrist. '' the mother -lrb- charlotte gainsbourg is consumed grief guilt. she 's hospitalized sedated days her husband -lrb- willem dafoe, a therapist, insists return. he gets rid all her medications. he will her partner her grief counselor, see this, if place not a good idea either, as turns. the enormous plant known the corpse flower expected and stink at the united states botanic garden conservatory sometime. it will the first flowering this titan arum -lrb- amorphophallus titanum -rrb-, also the stinky plant, lived at the garden since 2007 the plant does n't an annual blooming cycle ; can wait years or between cycles. it 's expected heat, start smelling dead animals bloom overnight or in -- though exactly which night happen. the heat smell is to attract pollinator insects such in, said ari novy the garden 's public programs manager the garden does n't any such beetles but resident flies could come calling, he impala escapes cheetahs by leaping tourists ' suv. once the garden confirmed on monday, july 8 that going staffers moved quickly display publicly a native sumatra, indonesia this particular plant part the garden 's collection 14 corpse flowers they rarely put display because require heat humidity, which grown at the garden 's production greenhouses southeast washington -- rarely open now the star the garden, the plant growing quickly. it 52 inches when put display on july 11. by saturday morning, it measured 62 inches high 69 by sunday night tuesday morning, it 79 inches. once completely open, stay bloom, collapse quickly halloween is nearly, `` antichrist '' a mighty strange kind horror movie a wrenching psychodrama for two-thirds before collapsing deranged sadism 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 's `` do n't look now, '' a far more keenly calibrated examination grief succumbing supernatural. -rrb-. dafoe and gainsbourg are 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 the movie goes chaos reigns all right, gainsbourg 's traumatized mom is transformed nonsensically a raving psycho witch-bitch the u.s. botanic garden last displayed a blooming titan arum 2007. at least seven u.s. institutions at least one titan arum each its collections. the garden will extended hours from tuesday. if ca n't make the nation 's capital watch it open online on the garden 's live flower cam. 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 had 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 with raw conviction, `` antichrist '' is 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 the national botanic garden of belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last, attracting over said garden spokesman franck hidvegi it previously bloomed 2008. the garden has another four plants its greenhouses, but hidvegi said still too bloom
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 . the u.s. botanic garden last displayed a blooming titan arum in 2007 . at least seven u.s. institutions have at least one titan arum in each of its collections . the garden will have extended hours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on tuesday and wednesday . if you ca n't make it to the nation 's capital watch it open up online on the garden 's live flower cam . 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 . the national botanic garden of belgium saw its oldest corpse flower bloom last week , attracting about 4,000 visitors over three days , said garden spokesman franck hidvegi . it previously bloomed in 2008 and 2011 . the garden has another four plants in its greenhouses , but hidvegi said they are still too young to bloom .
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