Melancholia (2011)

Rated R for maybe 3 dishes of sweary time.

We finish the Month Of Bev with the Next 100 Project’s 92nd entry. This movie delves very deep into depression and suicidal thoughts, but when a movie is done so brilliantly, you can’t let  sadness get you down. Lars Von Trier is a unique artist (Dogma stickler or not) and his film really has to go down as a landmark work. Oh, and snag 10% off your first order of Sparkplug Coffee when you use the discount code “Top100Project”.

For The Record: Bev’s right that it’s “chaos reigns” in Antichrist, not “pandemonium reigns”. Also, Sunshine was released in 2007, not 2002.

LINKS:

Rotten Tomatoes reviews

2011 U.S. Box Office

AFI’s Top 100 Lists

Links to: Breaking The Waves and Dogville and Antichrist and Nymphomaniac and 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Tree Of Life

YouTube links: the prologue and Mother’s thoroughly inspirational speech and Claire shows her clairvoyance and the ending

Previously on the Next 100 Project: Pan’s Labyrinth

February 5th on the Next 100 Project: Rain Man