Released on: 1987
Rating: 4.10
More: About Steel Dawn
News:
Lars von Trier Apologizes For Controversial "Melancholia" Press Conference Comments
After this morning's press conference for "Melancholia" quickly caused a spread of controversy on the Croisette and across the internet, Lars von Trier has offered a brief apology via an official Cannes press release. The release notes that the festival was "disturbed" by Trier's comments, which included the following: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was happy being a Jew, Then later I found out »
See full article at IndieWIRE »
Cannes 2011 diary: The end of the festival is nigh
After hounding The Beaver around Cannes, Xan Brooks falls into Melancholia, hurtling towards the end of the world so fast he flies right past the meaning of Hanezu
It's 7am at a cafe near the Palais and we're leafing through the schedule, working out which events we can cover and which ones we can't. Today, in particular, is already littered with casualties, with potential highlights that must be junked and ignored – but that's just a consequence of Cannes. "Ah well, it's not the end of the world," says my colleague Charlotte Higgins, peering out on the bright blue morning. It turns out she is wrong.
Melancholia, the new film from Lars von Trier, is about the end of the world, about a rogue planet on a collision course with Earth. Melancholia is coming, slowly, at 60,000-miles an hour. It looms up on the horizon at 11pm, like an illuminated pearl,»
- Xan Brooks
See full article at The Guardian - Film News »
See also: About Hard Candy
