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Mood:
- BleakGloomyStylizedAtmosphericContemplative
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- PsychologicalWeddingsEstrangementLife is a BitchMind and SoulFamily ProblemsHuman NatureSiblings Relations more...
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- DramaSci-Fi
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- Estate
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Melancholia, 2011
English
Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
Profile of Melancholia
The mood of Melancholia is bleak, gloomy, and stylized. The plot centers around weddings, estrangement, and family problems. It is a drama and sci-fi movie. Stylistically, Melancholia is episodic and is surreal. In approach, it is serious. The pacing is slow. Melancholia takes place, at least partly, on an estate. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed and a Cannes festival winner. Note that Melancholia includes nudity, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Melancholia
Lars Von Trier has been rather tight-lipped about his new film Melancholia. He famously pronounced no more happy endings! and has slowly detailed a plot about two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of whom is preparing to marry Alexander Skarsgard. The elder Stellan Skarsgard is in the cast, along with John Hurt and Kiefer Sutherland.Now weve got a lot more information, including basic details about the event that will open the film: the world being crushed.
In the book Genius, Lars Von Trier had a few things to say about Melancholia as quoted in Politiken:In Melancholia I start with the end. Because what is interesting is not what happens but how it happens! So we begin by seeing the world being crushed, then we can tell the story afterwards In this way you dont have to sit and form theories about what will happen, but can delve down into some other levels and become interested in the pictures and the universe thats what I imagine.Sounds like the movie will open with that big event and then well wind back to see things leading up to it. So well have a window seat as people freak out and try to deal with the planets impending doom.And, as the director explains, Kirsten Dunst plays the depressive one fo the two sisters, who pushes everything away after being married. Politiken explains that after hearing her young nephews anxiety about the impending planetary collision, she positions herself in between the disaster and the boy and tells him about a special cave where he can be safe.Some of the emotions in the film come from Lars Von Triers memory of childhood, when he was plagued with fears of nuclear war.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany |
| Release date: | 3 October 2011 |
| Runtime: | 130 min |
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- 21.April.2012
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- by: Paul Rueb
- Paul Rueb rated this movie
9/10Amazing
- 03.April.2012
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- by: paintedskin
- paintedskin rated this movie5/10So-so
