Review of Melancholia (2011) by Danny G — 29 Sep 2012

Melancholia was the story of a insane spoiled brats wedding and the destruction of the world. Whether that sounds intriguing to you or loony it doesn't work. Lars Von Trier uses his typical style here, the only difference I noticed was the camera was more distant from the characters than in most of his films. He really stayed away this time from zooming into the Rated R scenes unlike in his last film Antichrist.

This film also had some similarities to Tree of Life from the same year. They both had a scenes of captivating momens and then had a long problem family story. Tree of Life (directed by Terrence Mallick) put it together better though.

The cast led by Kristen Dunst were well selected and fit there parts perfect. I would relate Dunst performance to that of Theron in Young Adult. Neither film was anything near good, but the leading females did a hell of a job. It was an intresting concept but by the time the wedding was over I was already zoning out, and I had another one and a half hours to go.