DIR. LARS VON TRIER | 2011 | DENMARK & SWEDEN | 135 MIN

Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling

On virtually every critic’s list of Top Ten Films of the Year, Melancholia is “Lars von Trier’s ecstatic magnum opus on the themes of depression, cataclysm and the way the world might end. The title describes the mounting sadness and doom pressing on Justine as a mood swinging bride on her wedding day. Justine is attended to by her protective sister, Claire and worried over by her bewildered groom. But in Von Trier’s imagined galaxy, Melancholia is also the name of a planet that is hurtling on a catastrophic collision course with earth on the same day – a cosmic manifestation of that same crushing sadness. Von Trier sets aside all trickster impulses of provocation to create striking visual tableaux that, in their majestic simplicity, convey a profound emotional depth that transcends words.” - Entertainment Weekly