Loomings

Melancholia

Crit

Let's play What Does This Film Have in Common with the Last Film I Watched? Hmmm, a poser. I guess I'd say the unsurprising surprise discovery of a corpse.

So let's say it's Earth's last day before colliding with a much larger planet that will smoosh us all like bugs. Would you fix pancakes for breakfast? Would you want to spend your last minutes drinking wine and singing the Ode to Joy on the terrace? These are a couple of the least-provocative questions (hell, we haven't even talked about the toxic wedding reception) from provocateur supreme Lars, who, bless his sweet loopiness, never bores us, even when he decides to test-drive his inner Bruckheimer.