Images from the majestic opening sequence to Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, the rich texture of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde prelude, a sweeping backdrop to the slow, ambling march towards apocalypse.
It is all lush CGI, studio-lit nature as artifice, slow and lovely terror.
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Kirsten Dunst in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011)