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Melancholia

Top 10 Cahiers du Cinéma (2010-2019)

Melancholia

2011

Lars von Trier

Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling ...

6.8

32,178

Drama. Sci-Fi Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and her fiancée Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth...

	Media	Author	Review
		Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"Von Trier creates a mesmerizing, visually gorgeous and often-moving alloy of family drama [and] philosophical meditation (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"If I were choosing a director to make a film about the end of the world, von Trier the gloomy Dane might be my first choice (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A brooding cross between The Celebration (Festen) and Armageddon (...) Absent the deliberate provocations of Antichrist and some of the Danish contrarian’s other works"
		Kim Newman Empire	"The unconverted won't be convinced. But it's audacious, beautiful, tactful filmmaking and perhaps the perfect match for The Tree Of Life on a bipolar double bill. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Once again, Von Trier has written and directed an entire film in his trademark smirk mode (...) Perhaps this movie is (...) a kind of therapy that involves transferring his depression to the audience (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A moving masterpiece, marked by an astonishing profundity of vision."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Dunst is remarkably effective at conveying both the acute anguish and the paralyzing hollowness of depression"
		Jonathan Romney The Independent	"A mesmerising story that's moving, troubling and beautifully filmed"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Von Trier’s sensibility is extraordinarily strong; he’s unquestionably an artist"
		Richard Corliss Time	"This daunting and delirious, poignant and problematic, borderline-brilliant film deserves to be approached on its own lofty terms"

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