His work is known for its genre and technical innovation. The movie won kirsten dunst a best actress award at the 64th cannes film festival. The antichrist, melancholia and nymphomania according to. That year, at the news conference for melancholia his brilliant, deeply felt movie. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Melancholia resonated with all the pain and depression ive ever felt throughout my life. The antichrist, melancholia and nymphomania according to lars. Its reception was very good and many critics find it to be a personal masterpiece of trier. With willem dafoe, charlotte gainsbourg, storm acheche sahlstrom. Its a disaster movie about an enormous blue planet called melancholia 20 times the.
Watching melancholia during the pandemic the atlantic. Melancholia bij eye film in amsterdam eye eye filmmuseum. Matt dillon stars as a serial killer in this latest film from the 62yearold danish director. A woman dressed as a bride runs through a forest whose branches seem to grab at her in a disney nightmare.
With pacing as painful as existence itself, melancholia does as many of its characters do and says the quiet part out loud. Through its performances and gorgeous cinematography, it bemoans the meaninglessness of life. Fantascienza, danimarca, svezia, francia, germania, 2011. Filharmonici mesta prahy as the city of prague philharmonic orchestra conductor. Triers direction is awe inspiring and ambitious without feeling pretentious. Tym razem autor przelamujac fale i tanczac w ciemnosciach pragnie. Another woman makes her way with a child over marshy grass that sucks at her. What is the music used for the opening of the film. The movie is divided into two parts, the first about justines wedding, the second about the upcoming flyby of the rogue planet melancholia thats drifting through the solar system.
Best foreign film breaking the waves 1996 avoriaz fantastic film festival. Best foreign film idioterne 1998 1997 winner golden reel. A highly distinctive blend of film noir and german expressionism. A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. Film is an art form in which time and space are its main sources of expression, but what happens when these concepts are distorted through the lens of depression. Kiefer sutherland in melancholia 2011 kirsten dunst and charlotte. Melancholia is certainly a different kind of movie, and not one that hollywood would ever produce.
Manohla dargis looks at the overture to melancholia the new. Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with earth. Inspired by a depressive episode that occurred to the director, melancholia is a film that studies human relations under the threat of a disaster. Melancholia is an apocalyptic science fiction film that manages to subvert most of the conventions of its genre.
It mainly focuses on the relationship between the two sisters justine and claire, played by kirsten dunst and charlotte gainsbourg. I huvudrollerna syns bland andra kirsten dunst, charlotte gainsbourg, kiefer sutherland och alexander skarsgard. This article needs additional citations for verification. For in the world evoked by the danish film maker this time, we are absolutely alone in the universe. Met kirsten dunst, charlotte gainsbourg en kiefer sutherland. With kirsten dunst, charlotte gainsbourg, kiefer sutherland, alexander skarsgard. Described as a beautiful movie about the end of the world. Best foreign film melancholia 2011 1999 winner golden reel. For in the world evoked by the danish film maker this time, we are absolutely alone in. No not the oafish faux pas at his cannes press conference, duly whipped up. Not just the guests at the grand wedding held in the first part of the film at an eversoromantic castle surrounded by a golf course.
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