Melancholia

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  • Opened November 11, 2011 (Limited 11/11)
  • 2 hr 10 min
  • R | Some graphic nudity, sexual content and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 17+. More on child suitability

  • In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt
  • Director: Lars von Trier
  • Genres: Drama

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by Trueno

This movie was just weird overall. It was kind of worth seeing in a way, but many parts were boring and drawn out. It was also unrealistic as the situation in which another planet, out of our solar...

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by bittersweetness

Not your typical movie. But I think that's why I enjoyed it. The beginning has a lot to take in but as the movie goes on the story unravels. Even though it feels like things move along slowly it does...

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by bfugere

The first 10 minutes of the movie set the tone. I should have left but didn't want to waste the ticket money. Wait for HBO to see this. Too slow, shots held too long, unrealistic characters. Maybe...

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Miami Herald
| Rene Rodriguez

Leave it to von Trier to conceive an intergalactic sci-fi metaphor for a psychological disorder – and then make it work so astonishingly well. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

A movie masterpiece...is Lars von Trier's ecstatic magnum opus on the themes of depression, cataclysm, and the way the world might end. Read full review

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

The actresses' performances intertwine beautifully, like twin climbing vines vying for the attention of the sun. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Its true subject is melancholia as a spiritual state, a destroyer of happiness that emerges from its hiding place behind the sun, just like the menacing planet, then holds the heroine, Justine, in its unyielding grip and gives Ms. Dunst the unlikely occasion for a dazzling performance. Read full review

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Kirsten Dunst in "Melancholia."