Movie

Melancholia

2008 · 447 min

A gruelling, slow immersion into grief and role-play that blurs reality, demanding patience and rewarding it with haunting emotional depth.

Tagline: A meditation on the maddening persistence of sadness.
Overview: Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, dark and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, trauma, identity, madness
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence, gore and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
trauma
identity
madness
memory
Places: big city
countryside
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong