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IMDb rating 7.1
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Critic rating 7.8

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Critic Scott Tobias
rated 8

...the grand concept is really just a vehicle for a more intimate study of depression and its dangerous, shifting polarities.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Kim Newman
rated 10

...it's audacious, beautiful, tactful filmmaking and perhaps the perfect match for The Tree Of Life on a bipolar double bill.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 6

Melancholia is an absurd film in many ways, and yet it would be obtuse not to acknowledge those lightning bolts of visual inspiration.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup
rated 7

...er i sin egen ret en atypisk, modig og ambitiøs apokalyptisk vision...

Read full review at Cinemazone
Critic Andreas Samuelson
rated 8

Filmen är en penetrerande studie i ångest och själslig smärta, inte oväntat en nästan rak motsats till feelgood-film.

Read full review at Moviezine
Critic Amat Levin
rated 8

Melancholia är en långsam film som gör upp med vetskapen om att vi alla kommer att sluta existera och vad meningen med relationer , karriär och rikedom är. Men mest av allt är den fruktansvärt vacker och mästerligt tonsatt.

Read full review at Nöjesguiden

Cast & Crew

Lars von Trier
Director
Udo Kier
As Wedding Planner
Jesper Christensen
As Little Father
John Hurt
As Dexter
Kirsten Dunst
As Justine

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As a mysterious planet threatens to collide with Earth, a young woman struggles with her own personal demons amidst the chaos and destruction. She finds herself torn between her desire to escape her suffocating reality and her responsibility to protect those she loves. As the world around her descends into chaos, she must confront her own mortality and the fragility of human existence. A haunting and visually stunning exploration of hope, despair, and the human condition.

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