https://vo.rs/tags/lars-von-trier/Latest from the Lars Von Trier desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/melancholia-von-triers-beautiful-end-of-the-world/<p>There is a species of disaster film that spends two hours convincing you the world can be saved, and <em>Melancholia</em> is the film that walks in already knowing it can&rsquo;t. Lars von Trier made it in 2011, in the trough of a real depression, and he built it as a corrective to every doomsday picture where a plucky team drills into the asteroid. His idea was simple and vicious: give the end of the world to the one character too depressed to be frightened of it, and let her be the only person in the frame who behaves well.</p>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000