Melancholia

Hi everybody!

Today I’m going to talk about a very weird film but if you want watch a movie without a real meaning this article is for you.

Year: 2011

Director: Lars Von Trier

Genre: Drama

Melancholia is the name of a planet, which passes in our solar system. What’s happens?

Justine has to married with Michael: it’s her day. But during the ceremony, the talented publicist become crazy and everybody can see her mentally ill. With her sister they will try to be normal but the new husband see the problem and go back. Justine would be depressed and go in her sister’s house. Life continues and Justine tries to be stronger while Melancholia become more and more closed to the earth.

I think Melancholia is more a movie for person who likes authors’ cinema. It is very aesthetic and denote of a kind of philosophy to take up an end of world or more generally the life. Some people will say that Lars von trier knew how pass the feelings toward the camera.  And the director managed to take away the audience with suspense and a beautiful end of world.

However, you have to be awake when you watch it because you’ll want to sleep after… there is not really action, no really meaning and the universe is very special.  The heroine, Justine is very depressed and until the end (even after) we don’t know what is her really ill.

To conclude, despite a real presence of aesthetic and an interesting universe on one hand due to the characters and their reaction and on an other with the parallelism in a case of crisis. I think Melancholia stays a movie that only real film-lovers can understand and appreciated, but maybe my remarks and my feeling could be nuanced because of good critics as part of the press.

Hélène