"Melancholia" is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on depression that is as likely to exasperate as many people as it moves.

Melancholia floats in an air of supernatural malaise and tension, a melancholy mirrored in everything and everyone.

Melancholia will haunt you for days, maybe weeks.

A severe and ecstatic work of art.

No moviemaker I know creates psychodramas so hard to watch and difficult to forget. If we esteem Sylvia Plath, Vincent van Gogh and Samuel Beckett, Von Trier deserves our attention, too.