1. Dancer in the Dark | Rotten Tomatoes
Lars Von Trier is one of my all time favorite directors and this film still blew me away. Dancer In The Dark is a difficult watch like most of Von Trier's films ...
Selma is a Czech immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is passion for music, specifically, the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals. Selma harbors a sad secret: she is losing her eyesight and her son Gene stands to suffer the same fate if she can't put away enough money to secure him an operation. When a desperate neighbor falsely accuses Selma of stealing his savings, the drama of her life escalates to a tragic finale.
2. Dancer in the Dark (2000) film review - an analysis of von Trier's tour de ...
Jul 30, 2023 · Director: Lars von Trier. Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey.
An analysis of Lars von Trier's provocative tour de force 'Dancer in the Dark',
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000) | MUBI
Selma, a migrant single mother in rural America, is slowly going blind. While daydreaming about the musicals she adores, she works endless shifts at a ...
Selma, a migrant single mother in rural America, is slowly going blind. While daydreaming about the musicals she adores, she works endless shifts at a factory, saving up for an operation that will save her son’s eyesight. But when a neighbor accuses Selma of stealing his savings, tragedy strikes.
4. Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark - Artforum
Lars von Trier, bold, gifted, iconoclastic Danish director, completes his long, tantrum-filled mission to win the Cannes Film Festival's—and serious filmdom's— ...
IT SOUNDS GOOD on paper. Lars von Trier, bold, gifted, iconoclastic Danish director, completes his long, tantrum-filled mission to win the Cannes Film Festival's—and serious filmdom's—award of awards, the Palme…
5. Dancer In The Dark movie review (2000) - Roger Ebert
The film stars Bjork, the Icelandic pop star, as Selma, a Czech who has emigrated to America, has a small son, works as a punch-press operator, is going blind ...
Some reasonable people will admire Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," and others will despise it. An excellent case can be made for both positions.
6. Dancer in the Dark | film by von Trier [2000] - Britannica
Sep 26, 2024 · Joseph Goebbels; Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000); Choke (2008); and tick, tick…BOOM! (2021), a musical directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda ...
Other articles where Dancer in the Dark is discussed: Björk: …score for Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000), a tragic musical in which she also starred. The film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, and Björk was named best actress.
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7. Dancer in the Dark (2000) directed by Lars von Trier • Reviews, film + cast
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and ...
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
8. "Dancer in the Dark" at 20: A haunting swan song that's complicated to love
... 2000 film Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, another Scandinavian outsider from the Hollywood mainstream. Prior to Dancer in the Dark, he was ...
Despite on-set conflict, Lars von Trier’s collaboration with Björk is still emotionally devastating and superb two decades later. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch On March 25, 2001, Björk walked onto the Oscar red carpet and into fashion history. Decked out in a swan dress designed by her friend Marjan Pejoski, with a matching egg purse, her outfit was as iconoclastic as the Icelandic singer. She attended the Academy Awards to perform her nominated song “I’ve Seen it All,” from her 2000 film Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, another Scandinavian outsider from the Hollywood mainstream. Prior to Dancer in the Dark, he was best known for his involvement with Dogme 95, a film movement that eschewed normal filmmaking conventions by utilizing only hand-held cameras, diegetic sound, filming only on location, along with seven other restrictions. His abrasive scripts and experimental style made him loved and loathed alike by cinephiles, but generally unknown in the mainstream. Ultimately, “I’ve Seen it All” lost to Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys, but Björk’s swan dress and Dancer in the Dark have remained in the cultural memory ever since. Set in Washington state in 1964, Dancer in the Dark is the tragedy of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czechoslovakian immigrant working in a factory. Selma suffers from a degenerative eye condition that will eventually leave her blind. She hides her condition from everyone but her close f...
9. Dancer in the Dark - Apple TV
Bjork stars in Lars von Trier's powerful film about a young woman in rural America who, facing blindness, escapes into the fantasy world of Hollywood …
10. Dancer in the Dark - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph
2000 / 140min / 35mm. Experimentally minded Icelandic chanteuse Björk made her astonishing film debut in von Trier's gutting musical melodrama, featuring ...
Experimentally minded Icelandic chanteuse Björk made her astonishing film debut in von Trier’s gutting musical melodrama, featuring original songs…
11. How 'Dancer In The Dark' Spelled The End For Lars Von Trier | The Quietus
May 1, 2020 · Unless you were a fastidious cinephile in the '90s and early 2000s, the excitement around Lars von Trier's work might seem baffling. His ...
Unless you were a fastidious cinephile in the ‘90s and early 2000s, the excitement around Lars von Trier’s work might seem baffling. His attempts at shock value started out genuinely provocative: his 1996 breakthrough Breaking the Waves raises troubling but urgent questions about the value of sacrifice, the meaning of extending religious valorisation into sexual […]
