Antichrist

Antichrist (2009)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/]

The Gist:
The first half of the film is bordering on genius: dark, brooding, filled with an acute sense of grief and foreboding. The second half is unaffecting, shock value torture porn. Oddly enough, I still recommend it. For one thing, it has an astonishing performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Cannes Film Festival got it right to give her the acting nod even when they slammed the film (note: other critical circuits aren't quite as wise to separate a great performance from a flawed film). Also the visual look, cinematography, editing, is excellent. The worst thing I can say is that with all the shit that goes down in the last thirty minutes I should have been severely disturbed, unable to sleep, and so on. I slept like a rock.