Last wednesday Kirsten attended the opening night of “HotelMotel” at the Gershwin Hotel in New York. The production features two short plays “Animals & Plants” & “Pink Knees on Pale Skin”. We’ve added two pics to the gallery.

Kirsten says her family are the most important thing in her life and she loves spending time with her parents and grandparents. “I speak to them every day .

My grandmother lives with my mother and I worry about not seeing her enough. I love my grandparents. I can never understand why people put family into care homes. I feel proud that I’ve earned enough money to buy a house for my mother and grandmother,”contactmusic.com quoted the 29-year-old as saying. “My grandfather in Germany was so proud of my Best Actress award. He was telling all his friends, he got to be the guy with the big news. I loved that,” she added. Kirsten lives with her younger brother Christian and admits she’s “lucky” to have one of the wonderful family. “I’m lucky with my family. My younger brother Christian lives with me and when I’m not working I travel. I see friends,” said Kirsten.

Kirsten has spoken about her “delicate” battle with depression, and how it impacted her latest movie role. The actress checked into a treatment facility in 2008 to be treated for depression, and has been open about her problems.

She plays a woman called Justine with the mood disorder in Melancholia, a science-fiction movie directed by Lars von Trier. Her own battles with the illness were part of the reason she wanted to star in the release, for which she won the best actress prize at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.

“I have experienced depression. Many people have. Mine was caused by a few things. I felt a lot of stress from all these different areas and I needed to… It’s delicate,” she told the September issue of UK magazine Elle.

“You can go through many wrong doors before it gets right. I brought my own slant [to the role] but I am very much portraying Lars’ experience of depression. We met before I did the movie and talked about how the light goes out of your eyes. People don’t talk about depression, so for me it was really amazing that this was going to be portrayed.”

It’s thought relationships were one of the reasons Dunst sought treatment, as she checked into Cirque Lodge in Utah months after splitting from musician Johnny Borrell.

Now happily romancing Jason Boesel, who is also in the music business, the 29-year-old actress has mused about love. While many in her profession end up dating others in the movie industry, it’s not something she can ever imagine doing.

“I don’t think actors should ever be together. How can two actors ever make a go of it? If you do what I do, you get to meet all these amazing actors, musicians, artists. It sounds great but you can be swept away and I want marriage and children. Not yet. In a few years with a Jimmy Stewart kind of guy who is gentle, graceful, intelligent, someone who live his life by a set of rules,” she explained.

I’ve added some promotional stills from “Interview With The Vampire” to the gallery.

“Melancholia” went on general cinematic release in France today. The film is screening in about 200 cinemas.

I’ve added to the gallery candid pics of Kirsten lunching in Los Angeles in June 2005.

A french theme to the latest gallery updates. First up is a lovely photo of Kirsten at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, next is some candids of Kirsten in Paris in May 2005, & last but not least a fabulous pic of Kirsten & Sofia Coppola at the Marie Antoinette press interviews held during the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

I’ve added more promotional stills for “Melancholia” to the gallery.

The Tartu Love Film Festival will hold an outdoor screening of “Melancholia” next monday, August 8th, at 10.00pm. The festival takes place between Aug 8th-13th in the Town Hall Square of the city of Tartu in Estonia. All screenings at the festival are free. Marc has added the latest newsletter & you can read it here. The September 2011 issue of Elle UK magazine, with Kirsten on the cover, went on sale in the UK today.There is an interview with Kirsten in the September 2011 issue of Total Film magazine & I’ve added scans to the gallery.

A video of Kirstens photoshoot for the September issue of Elle UK magazine can be viewed at elletv.

We’ve added to the gallery two more pics of Kirsten at the “Where The Action Is” Music Festival in Gothenburg on June 28th.