Planetary Collisions and Other Disasters: Lars von Trier’s Crackpocalyptic Melancholia
You’ve probably heard that Melancholia is depressing and nihilistic — after all, it starts with the world being destroyed, and then rewinds, so that the rest of the film takes place on an Earth we know is doomed. What you might not have heard, though, is that Melancholia is intermittently hilarious, with a savage black…
