Melancholia 2011 Movie Review

The 2011 Cannes Film Festival crowd pleaser, "Melancholia", is Lars Von Trier's (Dancer in the Dark and Dogville) follow-up to 2009's horrific "Antichrist." Like "Antichrist" its main focus is visually expressing extreme emotions. "Antichrist" was essentially a horror film dealing with loss and a broken marriage. "Melancholia" is a science fiction film dealing with depression and the beginning of a marriage. Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman Trilogy and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) headlines an amazing cast that includes Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Science of Sleep), Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys), and Alexander Skarsgard (HBO's True Blood).

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