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Melancholia (aka When Worlds Collide

post #1 of 15
9/3/11 at 10:40am
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Looks like a retelling of a classic.
 
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post #2 of 15
9/3/11 at 4:43pm
Looks like it raises pretension to a whole new level.
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post #3 of 15
9/4/11 at 2:32pm
Ron I don't thi k this is going to be anything like the older When Worlds Collide.
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post #4 of 15
9/4/11 at 10:14pm
Thread Starter 

It most likely will not but, but it sure looks like it's going to have a very similar storyline, without space ships and so forth though. The trailer just reminded me a lot of that film.

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post #5 of 15
9/4/11 at 10:27pm
Merchant-Ivory meets When Worlds Collide. Looks boring.

PatH
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post #6 of 15
9/30/11 at 9:26pm
What the F..... confused.gif
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post #7 of 15
10/3/11 at 1:57am
For anyone unfamiliar with the Danish director's work - this is not a sci-fi or disaster film.

I saw it yesterday in the cinema and it was an amazing experience, but like most of his projects it is deliberately outside of the normal genre categories. A harsh portrayal of a woman with depression and how it affects those around her, combined with a world ending scenario.

The closing shot is one of the best cinema endings of all time.
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post #8 of 15
10/3/11 at 12:40pm

I'm a fan of the directors, I look forward to this playing town.

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post #9 of 15
11/5/11 at 9:48am
I saw this was available on VUDU already but for like $10 to rent the HDX. I don't know, I might check it out.
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post #10 of 15
11/5/11 at 10:28am
HDNet Movies will be playing this (for free) three times on Thursday starting at 7:30.
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post #11 of 15
11/11/11 at 12:53pm
Saw it on HDNet Movies. Strong performance (and nude scenes) by Kirsten Dunst, which I don't think she has ever done before. Decent performances by others in the cast including Kiefer Sutherland, Udo Kier (in a cameo), Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourgh (as Dunst's sister), Stellan Skarsgard, and John Hurt. Overall very depressing movie, although very well done.
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post #12 of 15
11/20/11 at 3:42pm
Just watched this the other night and  i'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
whatever is going in in Von Trier's mind must be a nightmare to live with.

This movie is all about depression and how it takes over ones entire world before completely destroying it.

The prologue is a brilliant short film just on its own and basically encapsulates the entire movie in about 6 minutes. 

Dunst was nude in a couple of shots but it isn't anything that is a reason to see the movie. There was nothing sexy or romantic about the scenes even a little bit.


It felt to me to be metaphor for depression and how the only way to find relief is for everything to come to an end and in this movie the "everything" is taken to the furthest extreme possible. 
On the other hand when someone dies, doesn't that mean the end of the world for that person, once you're gone there is no world anymore, it's all gone.
Maybe that was von Trier's point

I saw Tree Of Life only a few weeks ago and I can barely remember much more than a handful of scenes. This movie is stuck on my mind and the end and most of the movie will take some time to fade, especially the last shots of the movie.
To me is the exact opposite to Tree Of Life.

Amazing, depressing and frightening. Don't know if I can ever watch it again. That's a compliment.
 4.5 stars
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post #13 of 15
12/6/11 at 6:10am
Good movie. Refreshingly lacked the trappings of a typical disaster flick: people gathered around a TV watching footage of scientists scrambling to come up with a solution, epic scenes of masses of people in panic, etc. One thing though - was Kirsten Dunst just depressed or was she actually stark raving mad? That part I didn't get.
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post #14 of 15
12/6/11 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by elDomenechHTF View Post

Good movie. Refreshingly lacked the trappings of a typical disaster flick: people gathered around a TV watching footage of scientists scrambling to come up with a solution, epic scenes of masses of people in panic, etc. One thing though - was Kirsten Dunst just depressed or was she actually stark raving mad? That part I didn't get.

She struck me as being bipolar, with depression being the major psychological status.
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post #15 of 15
12/13/11 at 7:09am
I'm hoping to catch the film again. I don't feel it's a perfect movie (uneven maybe a good word), but it was something to see on the big screen. I wrote a pretty in-depth review here:
http://indieethos.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/melancholia-offers-intimate-if-flawed-look-at-the-end-of-the-world/
Check it out, and I invite comments there too. I've recently written about many indie films, so some might find it an interesting blog to follow. I also write about indie music and have a profile on the way with an important indie musician (Lou Barlow of Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr.)
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