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In a single performance, Kirsten Dunst, like Winona Ryder, has this uncanny habit of reprising (and reminding us of) past roles—well, the culmination of past roles (their moods, marks, and stripes). It’s as if her portrayal of Justine in Melancholia was an amalgam of Young Amy March and Young Anastasia, and in terms of doomed wedding pageantry, Marie Antoinette, and of school girl-type revolt and unrest—like Verena von Stefan, Torrance Shipman, Lux Lisbon, and Nicole Oakley. The latter two examples, especially so. As Lux she has sex with Trip Fontaine after Homecoming on the high school football field and as Justine, on her wedding night with Tim, on her brother-in-law’s putting green.
