Should you watch Melancholia?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Melancholia
Film · 2011
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
The sides of Melancholia
- A wedding that falls apart
- Two sisters at a country mansion
- A planet heading for Earth
Melancholia is good for you if…
- you can take a film that looks the end of the world in the face.
- you like the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner.
- you like long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change.
Melancholia is bad for you if…
- you can't watch someone sink into depression.
- you came for a disaster film with things exploding.
About: depression · sisterhood · the end of the world
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