Melancholia (2011)
Country: DK/SW/FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 136m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
The Earth appears to be threatened by a planet many times its size passing through the Solar System, and two sisters respond in differing ways to their intimation of impending doom.
Review:
By all accounts doing nothing more than 'having a good time making a movie', the Danish provocateur approaches a daunting subject (the end of the world) on which many a director in the past has foundered in portentousness, and contrives to be both audacious and profoundly moving. His images have that mix of grandeur and religiosity that marked the end of Breaking the Waves, as well as experimenting with ultra-slow motion in the way Antichrist did for its opening. Apart from the Festen-like wedding sequence in the first part of the film, there is little here to shock the squeamish, though that did not stop some from walking out. (The director saved his provocations for the Cannes press conference, at which he famously said, 'Okay, I am a Nazi.')
Country: DK/SW/FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 136m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
The Earth appears to be threatened by a planet many times its size passing through the Solar System, and two sisters respond in differing ways to their intimation of impending doom.
Review:
By all accounts doing nothing more than 'having a good time making a movie', the Danish provocateur approaches a daunting subject (the end of the world) on which many a director in the past has foundered in portentousness, and contrives to be both audacious and profoundly moving. His images have that mix of grandeur and religiosity that marked the end of Breaking the Waves, as well as experimenting with ultra-slow motion in the way Antichrist did for its opening. Apart from the Festen-like wedding sequence in the first part of the film, there is little here to shock the squeamish, though that did not stop some from walking out. (The director saved his provocations for the Cannes press conference, at which he famously said, 'Okay, I am a Nazi.')
Country: DK/SW/FR/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 136m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier
Synopsis:
The Earth appears to be threatened by a planet many times its size passing through the Solar System, and two sisters respond in differing ways to their intimation of impending doom.
Review:
By all accounts doing nothing more than 'having a good time making a movie', the Danish provocateur approaches a daunting subject (the end of the world) on which many a director in the past has foundered in portentousness, and contrives to be both audacious and profoundly moving. His images have that mix of grandeur and religiosity that marked the end of Breaking the Waves, as well as experimenting with ultra-slow motion in the way Antichrist did for its opening. Apart from the Festen-like wedding sequence in the first part of the film, there is little here to shock the squeamish, though that did not stop some from walking out. (The director saved his provocations for the Cannes press conference, at which he famously said, 'Okay, I am a Nazi.')