Today’s scene that I love comes from Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia. Von Trier is always going to be controversial filmmaker but no one has ever matched his brilliance when it came to capturing the end of existence.
In Melancholia, a depressed woman (played in a revelatory performance by Kristen Dunst) finds unexpected strength in the end of the world. As can be seen in the scene below, it’s a beautifully sad film, one that ends on a note of triumphant apocalypse:
Through the Shattered Lens 
I did his first US TV interview at the Cannes Film Festival for “Dancer IN The Dark”, when he finally overcame his fear of traveling to show up at the festival…controversiad, certainly hit and miss creatively, but this one is a gem for sure…great choice!
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