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- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 15 m
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 15 m
Summary In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is h...
Directed By: Lars von Trier
Written By: Lars von Trier
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 15 m
- 2011
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 15 m
Melancholia
6.7
Where to Watch
Summary In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is h...
Directed By: Lars von Trier
Written By: Lars von Trier
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
81
76% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
20% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
5% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
81
76% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
20% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
5% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Leave it to von Trier to conceive an intergalactic sci-fi metaphor for a psychological disorder – and then make it work so astonishingly well.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 550 User Ratings
6.7
68% Positive
373 Ratings
373 Ratings
14% Mixed
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
19% Negative
102 Ratings
102 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 550 User Ratings
6.7
68% Positive
373 Ratings
373 Ratings
14% Mixed
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
19% Negative
102 Ratings
102 Ratings
Wow
This movie was the best. It found balance between the intimate moments and « regular » ones. Even tho it might not be for everyone, it pictures depression so well and how people can react differently to an big event, like death … I recommend
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Melancholia is emphatically not what anyone would call a feel-good movie, and yet it nonetheless leaves behind a glow of aesthetic satisfaction.
Melancholia is a remarkable mood piece with visuals to die for (excuse the pun), and a performance from Dunst that runs the color spectrum of emotions.
And yet - and yet - there's something about the solemn, gloomy, often overwhelmingly powerful experience of watching Melancholia. I'll give it this much: This is a hard movie to forget.
If only Lars von Trier took into account that audiences might actually want to enjoy Melancholia, rather than endure it, or sift through it, or submit to the director's will, he might have made something extraordinary.
Melancholia is his latest pile of undiluted drivel, nauseatingly filmed by a wonky hand-held camera and featuring a crazy, mismatched ensemble headed by Kirsten Dunst, who won an acting award in Cannes last year for looking totally catatonic.
worthy on so many levels but lacking something unmentionable. its like after you watch it, you feel like some of it was just empty and blank.
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It's... weird. Melancholia is not nearly as powerful as Lars von Trier's previous film, Antichrist. It will not feel like a punch in the stomach, it will feel like nothing. Lars von Trier seems to try too hard on Melancholia, and the result is a film that will please the eye - the scenery is beautiful, and the acting is fairly composed - but will leave no lasting legacy. Two days after watching Melancholia, you will wonder whether or not you had seen it. Kristen Dunst and Keifer Sutherland are the two highlights of the film, not because of their interpretations of shallowly-constructed characters, but because their on-screen feeling. They look wonderful. Melancholia does not.
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Production Company
Zentropa Entertainments,
Memfis Film,
Zentropa International Sweden,
Slot Machine,
Liberator Productions,
Zentropa International Köln,
Film i Väst,
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Arte France Cinéma,
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Canal+,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
CinéCinéma,
Edition Video,
Nordisk Film Distribution,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Eurimages,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
BIM Distribuzione
Release Date Nov 11, 2011
Duration 2 h 15 m
Rating R
Tagline Enjoy it while it lasts
Awards
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
• 10 Wins & 13 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Bodil Awards
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
