Melancholia
Weddings
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2h 15m
Directed by Lars von Trier • 2011 • Denmark, Sweden, France
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård
In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst, winner of the Best Actress prize at Cannes) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party at the home of her sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). 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 toward Earth. What plays out is a psychological disaster film that could only have been imagined by director Lars von Trier.
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