To many of you who were [lucky] enough to have over-indulged at the tables of  families and friends the day before, the prospect of a Friday MovieNight must have been an appealing return to some sort of normalcy. Well, not exactly normalcy: a planet named Melancholia is on course to destroy Earth, after first wreaking emotional havoc on an already dysfunctional wedding party. After a montage of stunning imagery, evoking among other things, Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey, and making at least one informed viewer wonder what the heck had happened to the Lars von Trier co-originated Dogme 95 manifesto, Melancholia snapped into sharp, jolting crispness, and entertained majestically.

The folding chairs had to come out!

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