Is “Melancholia” a feminist film?

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000

You could say that Lars von Trier does not exactly have a way with the ladies. Maybe it’s because of the reports that he employed a “misogyny consultant” on the set of his 2009 film "Antichrist" whose sole job was to “furnish proof of the fact that women are evil,” or perhaps it was something he uttered in the film’s documentary supplement, charmingly titled "Antichrist: The Evil of Women." It could also stem from the anecdote, recounted in a sidebar of Chris Heath’s recent GQ profile, that on set he referred to Kirsten Dunst’s nude scene in "Melancholia" as “the beaver shot.” Or perhaps we are all still wincing from that infamous image near the end of "Antichrist."

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Is “Melancholia” a feminist film?