Movie review: Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia' is — gasp — hopeful

In Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia,' with Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgard, Kiefer Sutherland, the world ends horrifically, romantically.How does the world end? When it is in the hands of the cinematic master of human misery, dark Danish auteur Lars von Trier, as it is in "Melancholia," it ends in extraordinary, horrific, searing, aching and unthinkable ways. It is his most hopeful film yet.

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