This week finally brings Melancholia to limited theatrical release in the US, where prospective viewers have spent the five months since its Cannes premiere attempting to parse the great , fraught , near-instant mythology of director Lars von Trier’s latest masterpiece. Finally the work can speak for itself — or mostly speak for itself, anyway, with help from co-star and modern-era von Trier muse Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg on Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst and Lars von Trier: ‘He’s Always Right’
