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MELANCHOLIA - REVIEW

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Lars Von Trier may not be the best stand-up comedian out there but when it comes to making really good, really odd, really overblown surrealist films very few match the Danish director's unique talents. Forget the arty noir of Lynch, forget the V/O poetry of Malick, this is a Dali-molesting-baby-Magritte-with-a-chicken-head type of madness that's definitely not for everyone but which should appeal to fans of super slo-mo and talking foxes alike. For those unsure about giving Von Trier's film a go, check out Antichrist (lol). Now, Melancholia is nowhere near as twisted as the director's previous effort but you'll know pretty quickly whether this is a style you can get behind or whether the pretentious nature of the film proves too much to take. His films are a hard pill to swallow and I myself had no idea what to make of Antichrist at first. It occurred to me that I enjoy Von Trier's films on several levels: the silly overblown stuff I like in that it's us