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Jul 24, 2018 · Melancholia is based on Lars von Trier’s 2011 film of the same title but has been adapted for the stage by writer Declan Greene and director Matthew Lutton. The languid stillness of the ...
Oct 3, 2024 · Regardless, despite its missteps in the second half, the film does conclude in a spectacular fashion. Von Trier manages to create the most gripping end-of-the-world sequence I’ve ever seen on film. What makes it so powerful is that it doesn’t simply try to wow you with spectacular visuals (although they’re indeed well done).
Aug 3, 2018 · Melancholia is based on Lars von Trier’s 2011 film of the same title but has been adapted for the stage by writer Declan Greene and director Matthew Lutton. The languid stillness of the cinematic performances, especially by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst, lingers in the mind, leaving you to ponder how the film’s finely-tuned attention to lush surfaces, its lingering close-ups on ...
Budget. $9.4 million [2] (c. US$9.4 million (2010)) Box office. $21.8 million [3][4] 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 ...
Oct 4, 2011 · Melancholia, the latest addition to his oeuvre, is billed as “a beautiful movie about the end of the world”. It’s true — Trier weaves a visually stunning and subliminal account of the end times. But despite being classified as “apocalyptic”, the collision of the rogue planet Melancholia with Earth is not the real pivot of this film.
Jan 11, 2012 · In the end, I think of Melancholia as an exploration of something I want to call “objective depression,” where the pathology is reflected in the world and the world in the pathology: the depressive’s feeling that nothing matters, that we’re all doomed anyway is turned into brute fact (and indeed, as I’ve said, we all know that the ...
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This is likely symbolic of the impotence of science/technology to save Claire & Leo (who are Earth and Moon personified) from their fated encounter with Melancholia. In the end scene, we have only the 3 celestial actors (Earth, Moon, & Melancholia = Claire, Leo, Justine) to play out the final drama echoing Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God ...
