Melancholia (1990)

I went to log this and just when I did I got a notification to say someone had liked my review of Melancholia (2011) and I got all confused for a second. This wasn't bad at all though. It was just on next on the Sky Thriller channel after that last one.

Mos Co

Melancholia is a rather proficient political thriller despite not being particularly thrilling. Anyone looking for a straight commercial thriller should move along; this is strictly existential stuff about a former idealist who is reawakened from his respectable wilderness…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

Erm yeah, I won’t give this too much of my time… it was just on tv so I thought I’d chuck it on. It started off gripping, the voice over particularly, the words meant something to me. But soon after that, I felt entirely lost and extremely bored. Melancholia 1989 is branded…

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Art critic Keller’s radical past comes back to bite when he’s asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer, in Andi Engel’s cerebral thriller. The story concerns a German art critic existing in London who finds himself having to deal with his radical past after the gang he…

Luke Thorne

An art critic writes pieces with postmodernist rhetoric and a book about the decadence of “all human standards - art, politics, morals”. A sentimental nihilist man who is so full of self-pity, so cynical and disillusioned with everything but also can’t take a single…

Trường Giang

It's very odd because I don't know how Melancholia even found its way into my watchlist. But here I find it and yeah, it was decent enough. Not to be confused with a certain other film called Melancholia, this Melancholia is a pretty relaxed 'thriller' about a former…

Callum

If there’s a major flaw to Melancholia it’s that it feels like a film written, directed, and performed by people for whom English was not their first language.  Jeroen Krabbe is a perfectly good actor, and he has a wonderful voice, and I’m sure he knows English quite well,…

ZaneSimon

Jeroen Krabbé stars in this slow burner of a political thriller as a German art critic living in London when his past of two decades previous catches up with him. Some may call Andi Engel's film a tad pretentious because it is character rather than action-driven, but it…

loureviews

Not the one in which Kirsten Dunst is crushed by a giant allegory from space.  In 80s London a disillusioned writer who was once a student radical is approached to murder a Chilean official who was involved with Pinochet’s secret police. While deliberating on the moral…

Jack