MELANCHOLIA
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous wedding party in the home of her sister and brother-in-law. Meanwhile, the planet Melancholia is heading towards Earth.
I’d like to have a clash between what is romantic and grand and stylized and then some form of reality. The camera is handheld, for the most part. But the problem was that we had a magnificent castle in Sweden, and when you add a wedding with all the guests in gala and tux, it can hardly avoid becoming ... beautiful. Well, it’s hard to smuggle in a bit of ugliness. So I think the film is slightly on the edge of plastic. Here and there. Would you please write that? (Lars von Trier)
- Kirsten Dunst - Justine
- Alexander Skarsgård - Michael
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Claire
- Kiefer Sutherland - John
- Stellan Skarsgård - Jack
- Charlotte Rampling - Gaby
- John Hurt - Dexter
- Udo Kier - Hochzeitsarrangeur
- Lars von Trier
- Manuel Alberto Claro
- Kristian Eidnes Andersen
- Molly Malene Stensgaard
- Jette Lehmann
- Manon Rasmussen
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