A strangely apt visual representation of depression.

Von Trier creates a blackly comic delirium that is terrifying and completely exhilarating.

In Melancholia, von Trier has created a mission statement of a masterpiece, one that reminds us that nihilism itself can serve as a legitimate form of creation, a means as well as The End.

Its critics are quick to call it ‘slow’, ‘boring’ and ‘self-indulgent’ but I found it enthralling. The performances are outstanding and its depiction of depression is almost unprecedented in cinema in its rawness.