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Melancholia
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While the planet Melancholia threatens life on Earth in this beautifully photographed, typically quirky, controversial, intriguing, star-dotted (John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier, and Jesper Christensen), 135-minute, Lars von Trier sci-fi film divided into two parts: In part 1, "Justine," a sullen copyeditor (Kirsten Dunst) makes a fiasco of her elaborate wedding celebration by sleeping with a guest (Brady Corbet), berating her boss (Stellan Skarsgård), and then abruptly leaving her husband (Alexander Skarsgård) on their wedding night; and in part 2, "Claire," her older, protective sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) tries to keep a watchful eye on her depressed sibling at her palatial estate and herself together for the sake of her worried husband (Kiefer Sutherland) and young son (Cameron Spurr) as the giant planet comes closer annihilating Earth.

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2011
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