Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)

Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)
by Lars von Trier

Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)
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Actor: Bj?rk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Joel Grey, Peter Stormare
Director: Lars von Trier
Writer: Lars von Trier
Producer: Anja Grafers
Producer: Els Vandevorst
Producer: Finn Gjerdrum
Producer: Fri?rik ??r Fri?riksson
Producer: Lars J?nsson
Producer: Leo Pescarolo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.40:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

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Movie Review: wow!
Summary: 5 Stars

Extremely powerful and emotional. Raw. Truly original and like nothing I have ever seen before. I watched this movie for the first time while at a friends house with a group of friends, it broke my heart so many times, by the end I couldn't control my tears. I had to get up and leave the room to burst into tears... Didn't want anyone seeing me crying. But upon returning to their living room, I found I wasn't the only one with wet eyes.... Bjork put on a performance like no other.

Summary of Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)

Recording star bjork is miraculous as selma a factory worker in ruarl america and single mother who is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate selma is saving her money to get him an operation. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Deneuve David Morse Run time: 141 minutes Rating: R Director: Lars Von Trier
Masterpiece or masquerade? Lars von Trier's digicam musical split the critics in two when it debuted at Cannes in 2000. There were those who saw it as a cynical shock-opera from a manipulative charlatan, others wept openly at its scenes of raw emotion and heart-rending intensity. There is, however, no in-between. Dancer in the Dark is that rarest of creatures, a film that dares to push viewers to the limits of their feelings.

In her first and most probably last screen performance (she has foresworn acting after her bruising on-set rows with von Trier), brittle Icelandic chanteuse Bj?rk plays Selma, a Czech immigrant living in a folksy American small town with her young son, Gene. Selma is going blind and so will Gene if she does not arrange an important operation for him. To cover the expense, Selma works every hour she can, cheating on her eye tests so she can keep working at the local factory long after her vision has become too unreliable to work safely. She sublets a house from a local cop, Bill (David Morse), and his wife, Linda (Cara Seymour). When nearly bankrupt Bill asks Selma for a loan, she refuses, but he later returns and steals the money, which she demands back in a furious confrontation. In the ensuing melee, Bill is fatally shot and Selma is arrested and put on trial. Will justice prevail?

Von Trier's passionate, provocative film runs all our emotional resources dry with suspense, giving us occasional flashes into Selma's gold heart and mind with superb song-and-dance numbers she conjures to banish the nightmare (Bj?rk also wrote the score). At some two-and-a-half hours, it's not for lightweights, but anyone bored with today's smug, "ironic" cinema will relish this as an astonishing assault on the senses and a stark reminder of von Trier's uncompromising talent. --Damon Wise

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