It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
Lars von Trier's Melancholia
Author : Jos Hermans
“Marcel Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ has a 30-page discussion of what is the greatest work of art of all time. Proust reaches the conclusion that it’s the overture to Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde’, so that’s what we pour all over this film, pushing it for all it’s got. I haven’t used so much music in a film since ‘The Element of…
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