Cold feeling at the end of the world

Melancholia Directed by Lars von Trier Selected cinemas, cert 15A Rating: **

The Debt Directed by John Madden Nationwide, cert 15A Rating: **

It’s the end of the world as we know it and nobody feels fine in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, the Danish provocateur’s take on the apocalypse which blends soaring celestial special effects with gloomy, earthy melodrama.

As with von Trier’s previous film, the punishing morality play Antichrist, Melancholia opens with ...