There are very few films that shake me to my cinematic core. Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia is one of the few this year that did, from the moment the first image graced the screen I was hypnotized by ...

Kirsten Dunst’s horrified face was one of the defining images of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The actress’s latest film, Melancholia, was a favourite to win the Palme d’Or until its director, ...

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After its much-praised prologue of mostly stills that prefigure the film’s narrative arc, Melancholia becomes a brilliant study of how the troubled, disintegrating state of mind of one character, ...

More stories by Nigel M. At 29, Kirsten Dunst has more than 25 years’ experience. But nothing can quite compare to shooting “Melancholia” with Lars von Trier, the Danish bad-boy auteur who’s almost as ...

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Kirsten Dunst has taken Hollywood by storm over the last couple of decades with a host of stunning roles since making a splash in Interview With the Vampire back in 1994. Her latest performance as ...

The first half of Melancholia, the new film by controversial Danish director Lars von Trier depicts the saddest wedding in the world, a weekend in the country where all attempts at joyfulness are ...