When Kirsten Dunst claimed the Best Actress prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for her turn as a depressed bride in Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” many hoped she was on her way to an Oscar nomination. However, von Trier had already all but killed his own film and her chances when, at the press conference following the film’s world premiere, the Danish director told the room, “I understand Hitler… I’m a Nazi.”
Despite the negative press that followed — which resulted in Lars von Trier’s “persona non grata” status at Cannes — “Melancholia” opened in fall 2011 to become, at more than $3 million, von Trier’s highest-grossing film in the U.S. since 2000’s “Dancer in the Dark,” and “Breaking the Waves” before that. But unlike the latter film’s star (Bjork in her first big-screen role), Dunst failed to land an Academy Awards nod for her performance after Cannes praise.
Despite the negative press that followed — which resulted in Lars von Trier’s “persona non grata” status at Cannes — “Melancholia” opened in fall 2011 to become, at more than $3 million, von Trier’s highest-grossing film in the U.S. since 2000’s “Dancer in the Dark,” and “Breaking the Waves” before that. But unlike the latter film’s star (Bjork in her first big-screen role), Dunst failed to land an Academy Awards nod for her performance after Cannes praise.
- 10/22/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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