Melancholia
Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg @ Ford Fiesta Moonlight Cinema Melbourne



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Event Name: Melancholia
 
Artists: Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Venue:
Royal Botanic Gardens|(Enter via Gate D, off Birdwood Avenue)
Melbourne, VIC, 3000

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Price: $14.00 - $18.00
This is a lethargic, pretty and empty study in ways of living and dying from Lars von Trier. The Dane borrows some of the trappings of the sci-fi genre – in the same way he set the Dogme rules for The Idiots or adopted a Brechtian austerity for Dogville – to follow his peculiar nose for human behaviour. It’s a calmer work than his last, ‘Antichrist’, but it impresses only on a technical level, rather than on an intellectual or emotional one. For all the time we spend with two sisters, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), whose reactions to the world’s end define the film’s two chapters – it feels like von Trier is in it just for a few images set to music from Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde’. We see the best of them in an opening montage: a moon and a planet cast shadows across a garden at night; Dunst’s character floats in water in a nod to Millais’s ‘Ophelia’ and a planet swallows up Earth.
Event Type: Arts and Exhibition
Genres: Film

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