Lars Von Why

Lars Von Trier. I could start with The Five Obstructions, a movie which every film major has dedicated atleast 3 coffees worth of discussion. . . or perhaps Dancer in the Dark, which every Bjork fan there ever was drooled over and grew to love her even more. . . or what about Breaking The Waves, which some people cried at more than Titanic. . .

And then there was The Kingdom. Words cannot express how much I love The Kingdom, how much Stephen King screwed up the American adaptation, how much i don't understand the symbolism of the aardvark, or how gross the freakishly deformed "little brother" is. Regardless, The Kingdom is high up on the list of "fucked up foreign movies you must watch" as well as "most hilarious opening credits where the synth electro beat is completely inappropriate for the genre."





Meanwhile, there's Alexander Skarsgård aka Eric Northman aka the hottest man on television since Jordan Catalano. Son to Stellan Skarsgård, one of the greatest things to come out of Sweden since Abba.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is Serge Gainsbourg's daughter.

John Hurt was in Home Alone.

Kiefer Sutherland was the most bad ass vampire ever in The Lost Boys.

What's this have to do with Kiki? Lars Von Trier wrote and directed, Melancholia, which is starring both Skarsgårds, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland AND kirsten Dunst.

That's like forming a band with John Lennon, Stewart Copeland, Stevie Wonder, Jaco Pastorius, and then getting Rob Thomas as the lead singer.

That's like contracting IM Pei to design your building, hiring Rafael to paint a mural inside, having all the furniture designed by Henry Miller, getting Olmsted to design your backyard, and then finishing it off with Ikea curtains.