If you want to watch a painting full of sad people and pretty images, controversial director Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”) has your film. Playing Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Melancholia” opens with a collection of frightfully slow-moving, albeit captivating images that highlight some of the film’s key events before the […]
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Melancholia
If you want to watch a painting full of sad people and pretty images, controversial director Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”) has your film. Playing Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Melancholia” opens with a collection of frightfully slow-moving, albeit captivating images that highlight some of the film’s key events before the […]
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Rio Sex Comedy
But, wait … aren’t Rio de Janeiro and Istanbul separated by some 6,300 miles? Yes, and that kind of lackadaisical looseness is what keeps the movie from building on initial strength. Continuing the year’s apparent trend of Brazilian settings, “Rio Sex Comedy” is less colorful than the animated “Rio” and less slick than “Fast Five,” […]