Impressive stage adaptation of a film that just looms larger and larger as time goes on. Effectively conveys the enormity of the mental event that Justine experiences and the symbolic layers associated with the planet Melancholia and the approaching end of the world. The staging and conception are top notch, with some of the imagery and sound design feeling likely to linger. I wonder what this would have been like without the shadowy presence of the source film; differently powerful, I suspect.
(w/ Hayley)
(w/ Hayley)
