John Carter
March, 2012
With his audacious Melancholia, Danish pro! vocateur Lars von Triel inverts R.E.M.'s classic song: It's the end of the world, and nobody feels fine. The disjointed spectacle begins with a slo-mo overture—complete with a planet-crash mon|ey shot—set to Wagner. The two acts that follow form a melodramatic prequel: First a wedding at an elegant estate goes elaborately off the rails; then the deeply depressed bride (Kirsten Dunst) returns to the scene to join her sister's family and await the apoca...
