Beautiful Photography / Melancholia & Gregory Crewdson

Dear Kirsten Dunst, I loved your work in the film ‘Melancholia,’ which I just got around to seeing last week. While your acting was quite amazing, the thing that struck me most about the film was its opening sequence. The first eight minutes of the film are so beautiful and enthralling they could stand alone as a short film. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQ2YZG8kcA&feature=related] The imagery in these opening scenes will probably seem familiar to anyone who has seen the work of Gregory Crewdson, a photographer who specializes in dramatically lit, color-rich, surreal images. I didn’t really make the connection until a friend of…

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