"Enjoy it while it lasts."

The beguiling but fatally flawed Justine is marrying the handsome but naïve Michael at the palatial home of her sister Claire and prickish brother-in-law John (Charlotte Gainsbourgh and Keifer Sutherland) in an attempt to normalise herself and 'be happy'. But is she capable of happiness? Are human beings capable of happiness at all? Moreover, why is it that we chase it as a goal – why is happiness what is expected of us? Addressing all of these questions, this newest offering from Lars Von Trier is a testament to the catastrophe that comes when we try to normalise the abnormal for normal's sake. As opulent celebration evolves with the film's narrative in to morbid devastation, Melancholia comes in to its own as Lars Von Trier's crowning glory.