The 38-year-old actress rightly won the Best Actress Award at the festival, not just for these extreme actions, but for the far more challenging work of sustaining the grief, guilt, rage, and self-hatred that consumes her character (listed in the credits simply as « She ») after the death of her only child, as her husband, played by Willem Dafoe (« He »), tries to cure her mental illness. Seconds after the world premiere of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist at Cannes in May, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s performance was already the stuff of legend-and already providing further fuel for those who believe von Trier hates women: clitoridectomy by rusty garden tool, testicular smashing, feverish masturbation in the woods. An interview with Cannes’s 2009 Best Actress – By Melissa Anderson, published: September 22, 2009
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