When Lars von Trier channels his experience with depression through filmmaking, the result is an astonishingly surreal beauty. Slowly falling horses and colliding planets, stars and ravens, snow and ashes. Like slowly moving surreal paintings right before your eyes, resonating with a kind of melancholy that is both achingly beautiful and suffocating.
Melancholia is an art house fantasy drama about the impending apocalypse: a planet called Melancholia will hit the Earth in five days' time and we watch how the clinically depressed Justine (Kirsten Dunst), and her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), come to terms with the imminent End.
The movie, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Fest, is...(READ MORE)
Melancholia is an art house fantasy drama about the impending apocalypse: a planet called Melancholia will hit the Earth in five days' time and we watch how the clinically depressed Justine (Kirsten Dunst), and her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), come to terms with the imminent End.
The movie, which premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Fest, is...(READ MORE)
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