Friday 13th, was simply perfect for the latest controversial masterpiece by Danish director Lars von Trier. In four chapters, a prologue and an epilogue, the film aroused a spectrum of emotions in the audience. Not a classical horror film, but a complex four-layered work: apart from the horror, the most important part being the interlay comprised of the director’s dreams, on which the film is actually based. The humane part of the film features a story about a grieving married couple, while another component of the pic is also a discourse on evil.

All this and more was revealed to us by Lars von Trier’s long-standing collaborator, who this time acted in the capacity of a witchcraft advisor – her task was to search for the root of evil by examining various ancient mythologies. The basic evil is supposedly a general state of chaos, which individuals as well as society at large have to grapple with recurrently.

                                                                                Barbara Spreiz