With his latest film, MELANCHOLIA, Lars Von Trier confirms his place as my favorite living director.  Every time I see one of his films, I feel as if I get him and he gets me.  Now he's a chronic depressive, afraid to fly, with a tendency to say the wrong thing at Cannes and elsewhere, so what does that really say about me?  Unusual worldview, maybe.

It doesn't matter whether you like him, hate him, or never heard of him, Lars has made what someone called the most beautiful film about the end ...
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