Melancholia
TIFF Countdown -8: Monsieur Lazhar / Melancholia / Michael
By cscope2 | | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2011
Cinema Scope 48 Preview: Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau, Canada) By Jason Anderson Few lives go untouched by some form of trauma or catastrophe, yet compassion is often the last thing we spare for the people who cross our paths, especially when there’s no obvious indication they might need anything from us. This point was elegantly…
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Cannes 2011 | Melancholia (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
By Richard Porton | | CS47, Festivals, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Richard Porton “The purpose of provocations is to get people to think,” declared Lars von Trier in Stig Björkman’s documentary Tranceformer—A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997). By those standards, the provocation von Trier masterminded at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, which, in reference to the concomitant Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair that monopolized the television…
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