"Melancholy" in Moscow

Lars von Trier will be shown to the Melancholy in Russia before the official release date of the film for rent. The apocalyptic picture of the scandalous Danish director entered the program of the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, which will be held from June 23 to July 2.

The film von Trier will be shown at the festival in Moscow outside the competition. Whether the director himself will come to Moscow - this is still kept secret. The release of the film on a wide rental in Russia is scheduled for July 7.

The world premiere of Melancholy took place as part of the Cannes Film Festival, where the film was almost excluded from the competitive program.

Von Trier, known for his eccentric behavior, this time surpassed himself when he admitted to a press conference in sympathy for Hitler and declared himself a Nazis. For this, the organizers of the festival declared him Persona Non Grad, and the director himself even temporarily decided not to participate in press conferences and live in Denmark. Towards the end of the festival, Trier tried to resolve the scandal in a very peculiar way, saying in one of the many interviews that he was now a communist. Trier's verbal escapades distracted the public attention from the Melancholy itself. When the impressions of the press conference subsided, the critics were finally able to appreciate the film itself. “This is one of the best films (in the program),” said Olivier Assay, a member of the Cannes jury. - We all condemn von Trier for his statements, but the film is very well shot, played, written. This is a great directorial work. ” The performer of one of the two main roles in the film Kirsten Dunst received a reward for the best female role.

"Melancholy" begins with the death of planet Earth due to a collision with another planet, after which it is told about the events that preceded the disaster. In the center of the narrative - two sisters, Justein (Kirste Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Hensbur). According to the plot, Justin gets married, falling into depression during the wedding. This allows her to remain calm at a time when the earth threatens the destruction, while her sister and other people around her are close to panic.

The film received high marks of critics and spectators around the world. On the IMDB website, the film rating is 8.1 out of 10, and on Rotten Tomatoes - 71%, while 88% of the audience of the site put it on the list of paintings that they would like to see

This is not the first time the organizers of the Moscow Film Festival are included in their program Trier, which was previously shown in Cannes.

The director’s previous film - “Antichrist” - was shown outside the competition at the 2009 festival. In Cannes, the audience was so shocked by the film that they ran out of the cinema (those who stayed in the hall were hooked), and the ecumenical jury, awarding the most moral film, awarded the film “Antipraise”, calling it the feminine. In 2000, at the festival, the Russian premiere of the film “Dancing in the Dark”, which had previously won the “Golden Palm Branch”, in 2003, “Dogville”, and in 2005 they showed “Manderley” in 2003.

Lars von Trier. Shot: VildmedunderHoldning, YouTube.com

The shocking nature of the paintings of von Trier fits into the software policy of the MMKF. “Our goal is to surprise the audience, we prepare a lot of surprises for them,” the “ arguments and facts ” quoted the program director of the festival Kirill Razlogov.

The festival will open on June 23 by the world premiere of the Hollywood blockbuster "Transformers 3: The Dark Side of the Moon" directed by Michael Bay.

A full house is expected at the show: all the main members of the film crew and several hundred journalists from around the world will come. MMKF organizers do not hide that the artistic value of the film does not matter to them, they only hope to draw attention to the festival. “We will not get places at the opening at all,” Kommersant quotes the joke of Razdogov, “all places will be occupied by those who came to the premiere of“ Transformers ”, and at the same time, maybe write something about the rest of the festival.”

The competition program of the festival included 17 paintings. Among them are there two Russian films-almost four-hour film by Sergey Loban “Shapito Show” and “Boomerang's Heart” by Nikolai Khomerika. The “Schapito Show” consists of four interconnected stories that occur with Muscovites in the Crimea. It is played by Pyotr Mamonov, Alexei Podolsky, Zhanna Vorobyova. The films of the Khomerika twice were part of the parallel contest program "Special Gazing" of the Cannes Festival.

The competition of experimental author's cinema "Prospects" included ten paintings, including films from Lebanon, Iceland, Romania, China and South Korea. The jury of the film festival included actress Geraldin Chaplin, the daughter of the legendary Charlie Chaplin.

The upcoming film festival will also be interesting to the record age range of directors-from 15 to 90 years.

According to Kommersant , the film of the youngest participant in the Space Columbus festival is presented in the short film. According to Razdogov, he "shows us the cinema that we will have tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." In turn, in the main competition, the melodrama about the Second World War “Postcard” from the 90-year-old Japanese Kaneto Cino participates. According to the newspaper, the director himself will not be able to come to the festival, but he will record a video show for Moscow spectators.

Read more about the scandal surrounding the statements of Lars von Trier in Cannes in the material “ Closed in Cannes ”. About the results of the festival - in the article " Distribution of Prizes ".