This seemed to me very much like an opera... the complex themes, the characters, the emotion, the spectacle, the music, the staging, the denouement when everyone died...
I could see this being staged at the Royal Opera House or the Met
I agree. Also the character of Justine she is someone from an opera. She rejects the material world and has a literal romance with death/the planet. How often in a film do you see a young girl have a romance with anything other than a man? This, and the visuals, is why Von Trier called it a romantic film.
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