Dancer in the Dark (1999)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 108 Fresh: 74 Rotten:34 Average Rating: 6.7/10
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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 21 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 23, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $891,547
Synopsis: The final installment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudorealism, fabricated melodrama, and the priciples of the Dogme 95 genre to a dangerously intense... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Marc Barr, David Morse, Stellan Skarsgaard
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It is not pleasing to watch, by any conceivable definition of that word.
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09/12/07
Even without the musical numbers, von Trier has given us a compelling story with original characters.
07/29/07
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04/27/07
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07/21/05
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I was devastated by it. What bothers me is this: It is the easiest thing in the world to do... move people by destroying something beautiful.
12/06/04
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01/24/04
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05/22/03
Though flawed, Dancer in the Dark is a worthy addition to the filmography of Mr. von Trier.
02/07/03
The songs are all written and performed flawlessly by Bjork. And not only can the pixie goddess sing and dance, she can also act.
12/08/02
The situations that writer-director Lars von Trier serves up here might be embarrassingly florid, but the coupling of his manipulative skills and Björk's showy intensity results in a movie with the force of an emotional bulldozer.
12/02/02
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09/10/02
The turgid soap opera of a plot reveals little of the human truths [it] presumably wants to uncover.
08/12/02
...a calculated attack on conventional sentimentality and Hollywood illusion; the kind of movie that means to frustrate your expectations rather than affirm your assumptions.
07/31/02
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