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Name: Dancer in the Dark
Released: 2000-9-23
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey

Dancer in the Dark

R
2h 15m
2000

70%

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Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Björk). Rural factory worker Selma (Björk) is a single mother losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. To protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma saves money to get him an operation. At night, Selma escapes into a world where "nothing dreadful ever happens," rehearsing a production of The Sound of Music with her best friend (Catherine Deneuve). But when a neighbor (David Morse) betrays her trust, Selma's life unravels – and the lines between reality and fantasy blur. Peter Stormare and Joel Grey also star in this trailblazing concoction that will make you cry at the same time it makes your heart sing.

Director:

Lars von Trier

Producer:

Vibeke Windeløv, Lars Jönsson, Marianne Slot

Writer:

Lars von Trier

Cast:

Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Stellan Skarsgård

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

70%

Critics Consensus: Dancer in Dark can be grim, dull, and difficult to watch, but even so, it has a powerful and moving performance from Bjork and is something quite new and visionary.

Reviews

The Spool

Theo Estes

Dancer in the Dark critiques the relentless optimism of mid-century movie musicals, but it also puts the American cultural narrative under the microscope.

Von Trier infamously harassed Björk while making this film, yet its power, insight, and prescience, unpleasant and hard to take, are undiminished...

Björk plays Selma, a Czech immigrant suffering from a degenerative eye disorder. It's a rare, hereditary disease, and it'll steal her sight but not the song in her heart.

A sweeping denunciation of the myth of the American dream-the idealized America put forth by escapist Hollywood fare.

Dancer is like no other movie around. Shot in bleached-out video colors in rough, hand-held style, the film is at once aggressively modern and deliberately, melodramatically, old-fashioned.

March 7, 2018

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