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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.
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.
Apr 13, 2011 · Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease sh ...more. Yet another masterpiece from Lars von Trier that has won Cannes Palm d'Or. Selma has emigrated with her son from Central...
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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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. "Dancer in the Dark" is not like any other movie at the multiplex this week, or this year.
Directed by Lars von Trier. You don’t need eyes to see. 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.
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.
