News Summary

• Melancholia is the second film in Lars von Trier’s so-called Depression Trilogy.
• The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, and Alexander Skarsgard in a story that centers around a young woman named Justine (Dunst) who gets married and falls into a deep depression just as a rogue planet is discovered in the night sky.
• There is no happy ending, the world does not get saved, this isn’t Armageddon and nukes on an asteroid.