Saturday, April 9, 2011

Watch This: Melancholia


Melancholia from Zentropa on Vimeo.

This trailer for the new film by Anti-Christ director Lars Von-Trier might start off as the most conventional thing he has ever committed to celluloid but trust me when I say this is definitely the movie you make after Anti-Christ. The plot is as follows, taken from wikipedia.

The film begins with the destruction of Earth and then jumps back in time. The story will be about two sisters, Justine and Claire (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), who are becoming increasingly more distant from each other. There will be a wedding during the first part of the film between Justine and Michael (Alexander SkarsgÄrd). Soon after the wedding Justine becomes melancholic, which makes her stay calm when Earth is threatened by a collision with another planet that has recently emerged from behind the sun, while Claire, on the other hand, becomes fearful of what is to come. Trier has said that he considers all of his previous films to end happily, and that this will be the first with an unhappy ending.

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