The Most Twisted Weddings In Movie History
James White
Published Aug 07, 2026
There's no way a wedding in a Lars Von Trier movie was ever going to be anything other than twisted. In this film, Kirsten Dunst plays a young woman named Justine whose messed-up wedding takes up the first half of the film. Justine suffers from severe depression, and it's not hard to see why when you consider her family. Her sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and Claire's wealthy husband, John (Kiefer Sutherland), have paid for a lavish wedding, but they treat Justine like an ungrateful brat, telling her she'd "better be f*****g happy." Justine and Claire's acerbic father is emotionally abusive, and their mother is just as distantly depressed as Claire. During the wedding, Justine's boss harasses her, and Justine runs off in the middle of the reception to have sex with a co-worker.
The entire wedding, however, is just a precursor to the rest of the film, in which a rogue planet is careening through the solar system on a collision course with Earth. Spoiler alert, the film ends with the total destruction of the planet and everyone on it! That kind of puts the bad wedding into perspective.