Melancholia

"Melancholia" is the latest film by Danish "national hero" Lars von Trier. It stars Kirsten Dunst as Justine and Charlotte Gainsbourg as her sister Claire.
The movie begins with Justine's wedding. After a failed party, her husband leaves Justine and she falls into heavy depression. Claire attempts to nurse Justine back to health, while the rest of the world is obsessed with a huge "hidden planet", which is moving towards Earth. Rightfully so, because it happens to hit Earth and destroy all life in the Universe.
Lars von Trier has a very unique handwriting when it comes to making movies. Beautiful and well composited wide shots are mixed with shaky handycam closeups, making his films both powerful yet very personal; sotrywriting seems to ignore conventional rules, still the flow is flawless. However, there isn't much in "Melancholia" that hasn't already been seen, it's like "Antichrist" without horror. Also, the social awkwardness  of a failed celebration reminds too much of another Danish film - "Celebration" ("Festen") from 1998. And the whole "big planet comes and destroys everything" aspect isn't as dramatic as it was probably planned.
If you've seen Antichrist, then you remember how the movie focused on one couple so heavily that all the other character's faces were blurred out. Watching "Melancholia", you can see why - most of support characters are stereotypes and caricatures. Although Kiefer Sutherland has a very powerful presence, anchoring the unpredictable actions of mentally unstable main characters. While watching the film, I couldn't remember, where I had seen the actor who played the shy groom. Wikipedia helped, that was Alexander Skarsgård, main character of HBO's "Generation: Kill".

Should watch that again. In high res....

Saiko