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Jan 11, 2012 · ROB WHITE: At the beginning and end of Melancholia two worlds collide: the unloosed rogue planet of the title crashes into Earth to the sound of Wagner’s prelude to Tristan und Isolde. In between two sisters, mercurial Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and fastidious Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), take it in turns to suffer psychic crisis.
In the final estimation, what is so remarkable about Melancholia's portrayal of depression is not only the details but its entire worldview. It's a film that, like many of Von Trier's works ...
Nov 9, 2011 · Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" opens with music from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," mourning and apocalyptic, and disturbing images of a world not right. A woman dressed as a bride runs through a forest whose branches seem to grab at her in a Disney nightmare. She floats in a pond, holding flowers, like Ophelia. Another woman makes her way with a child over marshy grass that sucks at her ...
Melancholia. (2011 film) Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling, Jesper Christensen, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, and Udo Kier in supporting roles.
- $21.8 million
- Lars von Trier
- $9.4 million, (c. US$9.4 million (2010))
- Lars von Trier
Oct 5, 2021 · “Melancholia” is now available to stream on Hulu as of 9/22/21. Nota bene: Another Lars von Trier film I recommend is the equally dark and depressing yet beautiful “Dancer in the Dark,” starring Icelandic singer Björk. It’s about a working class Czech immigrant living in the United States.
Jan 6, 2023 · Melancholia is the second film in von Trier's Depression Trilogy, which includes the 2009 horror art film Antichrist, and the 2013 erotic art film Nymphomaniac. Antichrist follows a couple who ...
Nov 10, 2011 · In “Melancholia,” an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous, the always controversial Danish director Lars von Trier offers his own, highly personal version of ...
