It’s much better being melancholy than depressed, much less depressing. If you’re depressed you take pills, but if you’re melancholy you belong to a picturesque 2,500-year-old saturnine tradition in ...
The work follows Greek philosopher Galen’s classification of four personality dispositions—sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic. In the film, Blanchett is seen playing four characters, each ...