"A grieving couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse." - IMDB
It isn't too often you see penis-to-vagina penetration or blood ejaculate in a film and when you do it is never enough.
This movie has themes of Adam and Eve, Witchcraft, and Paganism. It follows a couple, Willam Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose son dies and Dafoe tries various methods of therapy to help his wife with her grief. Aptly named He and She in the film, they retreat to their cabin in the woods, Eden, where She tries to overcome her fear of the woods.
As He analyzes She he becomes aware that She has completely adopted the idea that women are inherently evil. She came to this awareness from her studies of Gynocide, the killing of women, for the book she was compiling. While trying to detach her from those thoughts, He discovers evidence of inherent evil qualities such as child abuse, mental degradation, etc.
At this point I will refrain from revealing anymore of this film since there isn't much to say that wouldn't be considered spoilers.
I did love the look and mood of this film. It had parallels of an Andrei Tarkovsky film and Von Trier even dedicated the film to him.
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