Melancholia
As a rogue planet drifts toward a collision with Earth, a severely depressed bride grows strangely calm while her composed sister falls apart.
Cannes Best Actress 2011 won
On the night of her lavish wedding, Justine sinks into a paralysing depression that wrecks the celebration. In the film's second half, as a rogue planet named Melancholia approaches Earth, Justine becomes serene and clear-eyed while her sister Claire, who had held everything together, is overtaken by dread.
The film treats depression as a kind of truthful attunement to catastrophe, reversing who copes and who collapses when disaster is real. It offers a therapist a striking meditation on melancholia, dread and the strange competence of the depressed in the face of ending. It won Best Actress at Cannes in 2011.
Details
- 2011
- Denmark
- English
- Film