Melancholia

Lars von Trier·135 min

A rogue planet called Melancholia is on a collision course with Earth, and von Trier splits the film in two: a wedding that one sister sabotages from the inside, then the slow approach of the planet, watched mostly from a country estate. Depression is the real subject, dressed as apocalypse.

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