S5E5: MELANCHOLIA

Renan and Bill are finally back in the same room this week to discuss Lars Von Trier's 2011 science-fiction end-of-the-world-melodrama MELANCHOLIA. Their wide-ranging conversation touches on the subject of depression and the director's struggle with it; comparisons to The Tree of Life and Last Year at Marienbad; oh, and of course Another Earth, the other movie from 2011 about a mysterious planet in Earth's orbit; Bill's rogue planet Wikipedia rabbit hole; here again is Pieter Bruegel's The Hunters in the Snow; Stack Exchange, Wallace-l, fake news and internet theories; von Trier's crazy Cannes interview and what we think of his other work; keeping your Skarsgårds and Sarsgaards straight; plus, Bill and Renan share their past—and future experiences—of celestial flybys.

Film links:

• Melancholia on IMDb
• Melancholia on Wikipedia
• Melancholia on Stack Exchange
• Hunters in the Snow on Wikipedia
• Rogue planet on Wikipedia
• Dana Stevens Lars von Trier

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