Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2012

I’ve always wondered what gloomy Danish auteur Lars von Trier, maker of inaccessible yet compulsively watchable films, would do were he to turn his singular talents to the disaster genre. A rogue planet is on a collision course with Earth, eliciting a variety of reactions. The story centers on two sisters. The first disaster is Justine’s (Kirsten Dunst) wedding, which she sabotages through savage manic-depression. Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is her rock here, but as the planet nears, their attitudes switch. The science is laughable and the SFX cheap, but the imagery will stay with you.