O’Hehir: Go See ‘Melancholia’!

It was the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, and now it’s the talk of critics: Lars von Trier’s sprawling, mesmerizing new movie Melancholia features a career-redefining performance by Kirsten Dunst and rescues the director after his much-loathed previous effort Antichrist. “Shot by [Manuel Alberto] Claro in gloriously rich colors, [it’s] a rich comedy of manners and buried family secret,” writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir. Melancholia is by turns terrifying and terrifyingly beautiful. “This is a better movie than I ever suspected this brilliant but admittedly damaged and self-indulgent director would make, and I suspect he may feel the same way.”