2011 · drama · sci-fi
Melancholia
Directed by Lars von Trier2h 16m2011
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Our read: Melancholia (2011) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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