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Exclusive: Trailer for Marian Dora's twisted horror The Angels Melancholy (Melancholie Der Engel)(From QuietEarth. 12 August 2009, 1:44 PM, PDT)
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Pathetic, violent, associative, hypnotic, dramatic, romantic, musical, metaphysical, tragic more (1 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Zensa Raggi | ... | Brauth |
| Frank Oliver | ... | Katze |
| Janette Weller | ... | Melanie |
| Bianca Schneider | ... | Bianca |
| Patrizia Johann | ... | Anja S. |
| Pietro Martellanza | ... | Heinrich (as Peter Martell) |
| Margarete von Stern | ... | Clarissa |
| Martina Adora | ... | Novizin |
| Marc Anton | ... | Mönch |
| Tobias Sickert | ... | großer Mann |
| Ulli Lommel | ... | Katze als Engel |
| Geutebrück | ... | Satan |
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With its focus on audiovisual composition, THE ANGELS' MELANCHOLIA essentially is an emotional experience. Not enough, the complexly developed story also stretches out to themes of friendship, passion, revenge and death wish. This assumes intense preoccupation with all the multiple layers of the movie. In aesthetic, tender images the stunned audience witnesses events that blurred the frontiers between reality and fiction probably already during the shooting. Just apparently in contradiction the events are accompanied by citations of German contemporary history, which gives Marian Dora's work a powerful intellectual historical basis. The movie's structure is similar to the baroque cathedral which gets a central role in the movie: The story and (only on the first sight) marginal details get mirrored like a symmetry axis and seem to be the counterpart of the leading characters destiny.
A personal work of director Marian Dora, the movie defies all formal conventions of storytelling. In nearly all scenes the movie breaks up to the audience's expectations. Established viewing and thinking habits as well as generally accepted and provided moral patterns are getting destroyed and stay unusable. If comparisons are appropriate at all, THE ANGELS' MELANCHOLIA has its place between the work of Jodorowsky or Pasolini. However, the movie can't deny its German roots and openly admits its highly controversial underground cinema status: Poetic, radical, original, unwieldy and impossible to forget.