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Melancholia (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Lars von Trier

Written By:
Lars von Trier

Actors:
Kirsten Dunst ..... Justine
Charlotte Gainsbourg ..... Claire
Alexander Skarsgård ..... Michael
Brady Corbet ..... Tim
Cameron Spurr ..... Leo
Charlotte Rampling ..... Gaby
Jesper Christensen ..... Little Father
John Hurt ..... Dexter
Stellan Skarsgard ..... Jack
Udo Kier ..... Wedding Planner
Kiefer Sutherland ..... John
James Cagnard ..... Michaels Father
Deborah Fronko ..... Michaels Mother
Charlotta Miller ..... Betty 1
Claire Miller ..... Betty 2

Synopsis:

On the night of her wedding to Michael (Alexander Skarsgård), Justine (Kirsten Dunst) struggles with premonitions of a blue planet called Melancholia, on a collision course with the Earth. Ironically, while the ensuing oblivion brings on a condition of depressive, Melancholia, Justine's sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), struggles to maintain composure and calm around her as impending disaster unsettles everyone. The extravagant wedding, paid for by Justine's brother-in-law, is shattered as the husband and guests depart and the sisters are left to deal with the impending cataclysm alone.

Bang or whimper? Ice or fire? Divine plan or cosmic accident? Alien invaders or genetically enhanced apes? The end of the world is painful to contemplate but also hard to resist thinking about, partly because there are so many wild and scary imaginative possibilities. In 'Melancholia," an excursion from the sad to the sublime by way of the preposterous, the always controversial Danish director Lars von Trier offers his own, highly personal version of apocalypse: a celestial collision rendered in surprisingly lovely digital effects and accompanied by mighty blasts of Wagner. The film takes its title from a rogue planet that appears suddenly in the night sky and seems to be heading straight for Earth. The word also, not coincidentally, names an emotional disorder described by Freud as consisting of 'a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment." The expectation of punishment is, of course, one reason people go to a Lars von Trier movie in the first place. Suffering; predominantly, though not exclusively, the suffering of women; is both his favorite subject and his preferred method. He is a crafty sadist, but also, for all his tricks and provocations, a sincere one.

On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in-line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 22 December, 2011.

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