Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) [3] is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series Secret …

“Indulging in Romance with Wagner”: Tristan in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) David Larkin Abstract. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) makes extensive use of music from the Prelude …

Mar 21, 2014 · Love, as detailed by Joe and as shown in a variety of episodes throughout the film, is the curse that gets in the way of pleasure. Joe herself turns out to be something of a fallen …

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) makes extensive use of music from the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde. The deployment of cues in this film is analyzed against the backdrop of the director’s …

Apr 14, 2014 · On one level, Lars von Trier’s masterpiece is a story of amour fou between a man and a woman whose blazing passion puts them instantly at odds with her puritanical …

Love is a mighty power. In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman’s paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a …

Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander …

A Romance in Decomposition: Interview with Lars von Trier. In J. Lumholdt (Ed.), Lars von Trier: Interviews (pp. 71-80). University Press of Mississippi.

This inventive drama charts the disintegrating relationship between two sisters just as Earth hurtles toward collision with another planet. Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg are …

Dec 10, 2018 · Von Trier, while rarely written about in this context outside of academia, has a bit of a melodramatist in him. He presents a quasi-nuclear familial structure or romantic dynamic …