The Devil's Double
Synopsis
It’s the End of the World…not as we know it, not as some cataclysmic CGI spectacle; nor would you expect such from Lars von Trier, the melancholy Dane who was the promulgator of Dogma 95, the late nineties school of minimalist filmmaking. In his beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth.
