Melancholia (2011)

Year: 2011
Director / Writer: Lars von Trier
Kirstin Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland

My Rating: ★★　2点 (ムー映画　by 町蔵さん)
Watch Situation: At mom’s home alone （during maternity leave）

The expression “Moo Movie” by Machizo-san helped me a lot through the complicated feelings left inside me after I watched this. In first half, it’s OK. I understand that the Lars wanted to focus on the depressed girl who has the battle of her feeling towards her marriage at her big wedding night. Well, this is understandable for me, but in Part 2 the concepts movies to the strange planet called Melancholia. Actually, I didn’t know about story lines at all, so I was like “what?” And I didn’t even notice the name of Lars at this moment. I was like, uh I know his name, I’ve heard it before for sure, he must be one of the famous directors… Then, right after I watched this movie, I felt something strange about this movie, and went straight to the internet and searched about it. Yes, my instinct was right. The director who makes my feeling uncomfortable in a strange way must be him, Lars von Trier. Not that I hate him or his pictures, I just know that his films are not my type. And Melancholia proved it again.

Well as soon as I find out the director, my curiosity to find out the inside of the movie cast away, but I felt immediately that I had to find out inside of Kirstin’s thoughts acting on this movie. And, Yes! There were long interview of her on YouTube (about 30 minutes long).

The Interview

According to this interview, there were couples of discovery that can’t be seen from the movie.

1.    She wanted to be in this film because the director is Lars, the famous one.

2.    She didn’t even know what the ending will be during shooting and it wasn’t big deal for her.

3.    She wants to work with Tarantino

4.    The best movie for this year (at the moment of the interview) was “The Future” directed by Miranda July. (I must go see!)

In my overview of these, Kirstin was the girl that I wanted her to be. I mean she is a especially natural straight girl as seen and talk. She never betrays. Even if she wasn’t an actor, I want to know her as a friend seriously.