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CANNES 2010 Market / Denmark

Stellar cast for von Trier’s Melancholia

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Charlotte Gainsbourg who won Best Actress in Cannes last year for Antichrist [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lars von Trier
film profile
]
will again work with Danish director Lars von Trier on his new project Melancholia, alongside Kirsten Dust, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, and f ather and son Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård. The announcement came yesterday at Cannes.

For once, Oscar-winning cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle is not associated with a von Trier film, but instead, Hoyte van Hoytema (Let the Right One In [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: John Nordling
interview: Tomas Alfredson
film profile
]
). The director’s portrayal of the end of the world will start shooting on July 19 in Trollhättan studios in Western Sweden.

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The €7.5m film is produced by Zentropa with Sweden’s Memfis Film, France’s Marianne Slot (Slot Machine) and Germany’s Bettina Brokemper (Heimatfilm). World sales are handled by TrustNordisk.

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