Movie · Sci-Fi · Drama

Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine’s sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth, threatening the very existence of humankind…

2011 · 2h 15m
  • 80%
  • 17+
Director Lars von Trier

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Melancholia

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Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine’s sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth, threatening the very existence of humankind…

COMMON SENSE

Emotionally brutal end-of-the-world drama.

TOMATOMETER
Average 7.5
Reviews 210
Fresh 168
Rotten 42

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Studio
Magnolia
Released
2011
Run Time
2 hr 15 min
Rated
R for some graphic nudity, sexual content and language
Content Advisories
Sexual Content, Suggestive Dialogue, Language
Regions of Origin
United States, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, Sweden
© 2011 Artificial Eye

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (Denmark), English (Sweden), Spanish (Spain)
Audio

English (United States) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.