Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 37
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.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 9
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.
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Reportedly the third in acclaimed director Lars von Trier's "Golden Hearts" trilogy (preceded by Breaking the Waves and The Idiots), this film is a hip reworking of the classic Hollywood Musical, starring international pop diva Bjork. Set somewhere in rural Washington state, Czech immigrant Selma (Bjork) works in a pressing plant, struggling to make ends meet for herself and her 10-year-old son, Gene (Vladica Kostic). Her best friend is coworker and fellow European Kathy (Catherine Deneuve).
Sep 23, 2000 Wide
Mar 20, 2001
$2.8M
Fine Line Features
All Critics (134) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (38) | DVD (21)
At least Dancer in the Dark is bad in a complicated way.
Aims right for the heart and aces its target.
So unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke.
It's not just that the numbers are berserkly bad; they also don't seem to have any emotional connection to this bedraggled, Dickensian waif.
Denmark's enfant terrible Lars von Trier finally won the Camme Palme d'Or for this postmodern deconstructive musical featuring a stunning performance by Bjork.
Habitually galling director Lars von Trier's musical is a black-swan genre rarity - a 1960s-set sledgehammer to Broadway and Hollywood's insistence on sunshiny endings in golden-era musicals about Nazis, murder and suicide.
Everything about Bjork and Dancer in the Dark is enigmatic in an uncomfortable dissecting way that shows beauty in the crudest way, and crudeness in the complexity of advanced social mores.
It is not pleasing to watch, by any conceivable definition of that word.
Even without the musical numbers, von Trier has given us a compelling story with original characters.
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.
Von Trier is vicious when it comes to milking the melodrama.
A devastating, soul-crushing take on the justice system concerning a blind immigrant (Bjork), who gets by as a machine-worker by day and a theater performer by night, who is exploited by some people she is closest to in 1964 Washington. This film is a full mixed-bag, as director Lars von Trier occasionally gets too
December 14, 2011Super Reviewer
Selma (Björk) é uma jovem imigrante da Tchecoslováquia que se mudou para os Estados Unidos com o propósito de criar seu filho Gene (Vladica Kostic). Vivendo uma vida de pobreza, Selma trabalha em uma fábrica de esmaltados junto de sua melhor amiga Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) e vive em uma pequena casa alugada no quintal
August 9, 2011Super Reviewer
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