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Mood:
- DisturbingEmotionalGloomyBleakContemplativeOffbeatStylized
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Plot:
- Human SpiritFriendshipDown on Your LuckLife is a BitchSocietyFriendsHuman NatureDestiny more...
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Genres:
- DramaMusicalDogmaMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- WashingtonSmall Town
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- Award WinnerCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- SurrealStrong Female Presence
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- Mild Violent Content
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Dancer in the Dark, 2000
English
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Profile of Dancer in the Dark
The mood of Dancer in the Dark is disturbing, emotional, and gloomy. The plot centers around being down on your luck, the human spirit, and themes of life is a bitch. It is a drama and musical movie. Stylistically, Dancer in the Dark is dogmatic, is surreal, and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Dancer in the Dark takes place, at least partly, in a small town. The setting is Washington. It happens in the 1990s. Dancer in the Dark is known for being a Cannes festival winner. Note that it includes mild violent content.
Summary of Dancer in the Dark
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 level. The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, in order to save up enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene of the same disease. To pass the time, Selma fantasizes that her own life is a musical, one in which her friends join her in sweeping song-and-dance routines. After her neighbor Bill (David Morse) discovers Selma's hidden savings and steals them from her, she is forced to perform an act of salvation that will condemn her forever. As the innocent Selma, Björk is one of the most fragile and heartbreaking presences the screen has ever seen. Her unbearably moving performance is enough to keep the viewer mesmerized throughout, even amid the story gaps and inconsistencies. Featuring compassionate supporting turns by Catherine Deneuve and Peter Stormare, DANCER IN THE DARK is an unrelenting gut punch that will have sympathetic audiences quivering with uncontrollable emotion.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway |
| Release date: | 22 September 2000 |
| Runtime: | 140 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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- by: Edward Guthmann
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- by: Steve
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