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Original title: Myrkradansarinn
Release Date
• USA: Oct 6, 2000
• UK: 15 Sep 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 20, 2001
• R2: 12 Aug 2002
Budget SEK 120,000,000
BoxOffice: $0.9M
Official Website:
Dancer in the Dark Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some violence.
Running Time
2 hours, 20 minutes
Country Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway
Studio ARTE France Cinema, Film i Vast, France 3 Cinema, Liberator Productions, Pain Unlimited, Trust Film Svenska, Zentropa
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Other Titles
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Taps (2000)
• Myrkradansarinn
• Bailar en la oscuridad (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Hollywood, Betrayal, Courtroom, Police, Melodrama, Tear Jerker, Murder, Surreal
Tagline: You don't need eyes to see.
Plot: 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
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