Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Mariam Mansuryan The beginning sequence of this film almost took my breath away. It was painstakingly beautiful. The image was just that of a girl with dead birds falling in front of her face, but the emotion was overwhelming. The pathetic fallacy - when real world represents what's inside a person - in my opinion is one of the most powerful tools a filmmaker can use.Tries does this not only through uniquely his very documentary-like camerawork, and lighting that is itself melancholia at times, but in this case, also through playing with time. This scene is again from the beginning, where a woman is walking in a forest with a child in her arms. The mud under her feet goes up to her shins. And maybe this wasn't happening in reality, but the heavy texture of the woman's steps gave me a sense of how difficult every step was. The entire world here was stuck in melancholia. In slow destruction. That was the reality.And then comes the 'reality'. The camerawork dramatically changes, it becomes the classic Trier style handheld, zoom-in, zoom-out camerawork. Very often we see Justin's face as the dominant of the shot, and through great power of emphasizing and acting, we know from the beginning that Justin does not show openly what she feels.The hit of melancholia is inevitable for her, and she does not try to hide it with distractions such as drinking wine, but rather goes toward it face to face, fearlessly.

katparker-86462 Lars Von Trier is a risky filmmaker and with Melancholia he has channeled all that risqué factor into a good story with some fantastic visuals. The oddly beautiful Kirsten Dunst leads the film and is pretty much the main character whose wedding takes place amidst an apocalypse event(Earth is about to be hit by another planet!!). The acting is uniform throughout and the pacing is very good. Melancholia is a film that should be seen even if you don't like art movies. This one just might change your perspective.

nayanarenu What drew me to Melancholia were the stunning visuals but what kept me on what the wedding sequence. The dysfunctional dynamics of the key actors created a taut and highly tense ambiance that made me anticipate every next frame holding my breath. Unlike other movies, the impending doom of earth does not consume the characters from the onset and does not create cliché scenes. It was fascinating to see Melancholia grow from a speech of amusement and a conversation in passing to an eventuality that consumes their whole lives, much like how the planet grew in size as the day went by. The end of day scenes is unlike any I have seen before. Watch it if only for the visuals.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Melancholia" (2011)Justine & Michael just married. A white stretch limousine drives a pathway toward a castle-like building. The final corner gets too tight, because no one bothered to measure the length of the vehicle in relations to the width of the corner. Justine, performed by two-edged actress Kirsten Dunst, wearing a white wedding dress, sends the chauffeur out of the driver seat and gives it a try. She does not succeed. Physics made it impossible to maneuver the limousine around the corner. The couple ends up walking the last meters to the wedding dinner party.Director Lars von Trier builds a maelstrom of human emotion with his opening sequence to "Melancholia", beginning with super-slow-motion Phantom HD shots accompanied under Richard Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde" overture, making clear it its not your everyday movie. The topics that are illuminated, especially between the sisters Justine & Claire, portrayed by concerns-pushing actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, come full circle by switching character along the way. The one always concerned, anxious and frightful. The other outgoing, back-boned and daring. Together they dominate a family that could not be more splitted into pieces. Father, played by John Hurt, and mother, played by Charlotte Rampling, do not talk anymore. Wedding Planner, played by actor Udo Kier, constantly on the verge of a nervous-breakdown. Husband of Claire, played by Kiefer Sutherland, remains a rock at point break of an approaching solar eclipse, which will inbalance the entire planet earth to its core. Freshman husband Michael, portrayed by vulnerability showing Alexander Skarsgard, has not a blink of chance to satisfy his wedded wife Justine, who already given in to other pleasures at the party. Then last but not least, actor Stellan Skargard, who plays Justine's boss with no retreats even on her wedding day, keeping business talk of promotion alive. It comes as it must come. They all survive a disastrous day before each and every one needs to fight for survival in an upcoming new planet on collision course with Earth.The story also originally written by Lars von Trier compliments such comprehension on human emotion and behavior that this independent picture, shot in Sweden of Summer 2010, prevails the test of time of being surprising, tense, daring and entertaining even after several revisits.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)