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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.
- $45.6 million, (416 million kr)
- Vibeke Windeløv
- Björk
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.
- (114K)
- Crime, Drama, Musical
- Lars von Trier
- 2000-10-06
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. Read Critics Reviews....
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- Lars Von Trier
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- Björk
A film review of Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark" (2000), starring Bjork as a blind Czech woman in 1964 America, who faces a tragic choice between love and betrayal. The reviewer praises the film's bold and soap opera-like plot, its use of music and color, and its departure from modernism and plausibility.
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.
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