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Summaries. An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision. In small-town Washington state in 1964, Czechoslovakian immigrant Selma Jezková and her preteen son Gene live in a rented trailer owned by Bill and Linda Houston; Bill is the town sheriff.
Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate.
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Oct 20, 2000 · "Dancer in the Dark" is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema--to heroines and villains, noble sacrifices and dastardly betrayals. The relatively crude visual look underlines the movie's abandonment of slick modernism.
Oct 6, 2000 · Dancer in the Dark: Directed by Lars von Trier. With Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare. An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.
- (117K)
- Crime, Drama, Musical
- Lars von Trier
- 2000-10-06
Sep 22, 2000 · It’s the 1960s in a fictional rural America, and the factory worker and single mother, secretly going blind from a hereditary eye disease, is frantically saving money for an operation that might...
Dec 28, 2000 · Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000) opens with an overture – four minutes of darkened screen filled with grand orchestral sounds written by the film’s central actor and composer, Björk.
View PDF. Dancer in the Dark: A Film Analysis The film Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier is basically a combination of two genres, melodrama and musical, a rather “unorthodox mixture” (Austin-Smith, 2006).
