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Melancholia

Posted on August 4, 2012October 28, 2020 by Village Vidiot

  “Melancholia,” 4 August 2012  (2011), DVD.    This two-part Lars Van Triers effort looks at two sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsborough) as they both face their world ending through marriage (Dunst) and the mystery blue planet, Melancholia (all) that threatens the world in the second part. Wonderful acting from John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgard, and Kiefer Sutherland. This is a study of the implications of loss and the security that comes as disaster threatens. I liked this one a lot, but it’s not an easy film and isn’t for everyone. See the DVD feature on melancholia/depression that discusses the paradoxical calm that comes with the melancholic’s knowledge that things are as bad as they understood. In contrast to that, there is depression and despair. A very interesting film

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