On Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus for “Melancholia” reads if it seems to be a good sign for the overall note of the film, you would be right; He won a solid 80% on the examiner, and also received a number of distinctions. After the first in the film at the Cannes Film Festival, Dunst won the Prize for the best actress festival, the two online New York film reviews and the National Society of Film Critics appointed it one of the best films in 2011, and much later in 2019, publications as Vulture ranked it among the best films in the decade.
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Anyway, what about individual criticisms? For Indiewire, Lisa Rosman wrote: “In” Melancholia “” [Lars] Von Trier has created a mission statement of a masterpiece, the one who reminds us that nihilism itself can serve as a legitimate form of creation, a means as well as the end. “Bob Mondello seemed to agree; as he put it in his review for NPR,” it is a planet that cannot come early enough for it, but that I kept the will. No, I am a little embarrassed to say, to save humanity from “melancholy”, but simply to stay in the presence of this remarkable film a little longer. “” slightly More mixed but has always arrived at a positive conclusion – “There is something in the solemn experience, dark, often extremely powerful to watch” melancholy “. I will give it as much: it is a film difficult to forget” – and Andrew O’Hehir calls it “the most composed and most beautiful and visible film of [von Trier’s] The career “In her living room review. The review of Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum, during this time, had some of the most efficient praise for the film, the writing,” although “Melancholia”, by its very title, declares a sad state of mind, the film is, in fact, the work of a man who was slow emerging from personal vision.
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But not all criticisms were fully on board with “melancholy”. As Mike d’Angelo wrote it for the AV club, “there is a disconnection here between the concept and the execution – a kind of descessed clumsiness and moment at times – which makes” melancholy “feels like a therapy poorly disguised as a drama.” In Slant Magazine, Ed Gonzalez agreed: “‘Melancholia’ is a film of some epiphanies and even less perspectives, and as clever as the fate of the film can be, its symbolism wades.” Admittedly, the film is not for everyone – but also criticisms were extremely positive. So, what has Dunst have since his performance has been praised in “Melancholia?”
