MELANCHOLIA

Another trailer, this time courtesy of Lars Von Trier, whose last film Antichrist, reminded us all to lock the windows and never go away on weekends to a secluded cabin. Here, he tones down the baby death and talking foxes, in exchange for Kirsten Dunst (and recent muse) Charlotte Gainsbourg. Dunst marries Alexander Skarsgård, and apparently instantly regrets her decision, (possibly due to the overexposure of vampires in our society) so then she decides to lay around naked (?). Gainsbourg herself seems rather unhappy in her life with Jack Bauer.

Dunst's fondness for beings sans clothes, could be in part due to the fact that the planet Melancholia (which has mysteriously and conveniently been hiding behind the sun) is on a collision course with Earth, leaving everyone on our world doomed. On the bright side, it appears imminent death coincides with some sort of electromagnetic powers that curl out of our fingers. So we got that going for us.



No American date yet set for this, but a premiere at Cannes in the summer is a likely destination.