As a planet hurtles toward a collision course with Earth, two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg) cope with the approaching doomsday in different ways, finding their already strained relationship challenged.
16 May 1948, Copenhagen, Denmark
25 August 1976, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
17 August 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1967, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
14 April 1966
30 April 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA
14 October 1944, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
21 December 1966, Paddington, London, England, UK
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
10 September 1943, Brooklyn, New York, USA
21 July 1971, London, England, UK
5 February 1946, Sturmer, Essex, England, UK
October 07, 2015
Though far from Mr. von Trier's best, its power is still undeniable.
November 29, 2011
Melancholia floats in an air of supernatural malaise and tension, a melancholy mirrored in everything and everyone.
November 23, 2011
Melancholia will haunt you for days, maybe weeks.
November 07, 2016
In Melancholia, von Trier has created a mission statement of a masterpiece, one that reminds us that nihilism itself can serve as a legitimate form of creation, a means as well as The End.
November 23, 2011
A severe and ecstatic work of art.
June 22, 2013
It's the little moments that annihilate us, every day, every normal day. Days that don't end, days when the end of the world is a comfort that the sick like Justine cannot afford.
March 21, 2013
A strong central performance from Kirsten Dunst, this is one of the best Lars von Trier films yet made.
August 13, 2013
The journey von Trier has taken to this one immaculate moment has been bold to say the least, but at long last, he has revealed his full ability, and the result is his masterwork.
May 03, 2015
This is the greatest movie ever made about depression, full stop.
February 19, 2013
Melancholia is not about the end of the world, but the end of a feeling: happiness.
December 01, 2011
"Melancholia" is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on depression that is as likely to exasperate as many people as it moves.
November 22, 2011
No moviemaker I know creates psychodramas so hard to watch and difficult to forget. If we esteem Sylvia Plath, Vincent van Gogh and Samuel Beckett, Von Trier deserves our attention, too.
