They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, whom she nicknames Cvalda. In Washington state in 1964, Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant, has moved to the United States with her 12-year-old son, Gene Ježek. The song " I've Seen It All" performed and co-wrote by Björk, with Sjón and von Trier, were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to " Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan from Wonder Boys. The film was generally positive reviews and Björk's performance was highly acclaimed, but criticism was directed at its plot.
ĭancer in the Dark premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and got awarded the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress award for Björk. Like the first installment, it was shot with a handheld camera inspired by Dogme 95, although it was not permitted as an actual due to use of music and violence. It was an international co-production among companies based in thirteen European and North American countries and regions. The soundtrack for the film, Selmasongs, was written mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from Mark Bell and some of the lyrics were written by von Trier and Sjón.ĭancer in the Dark is the third and final installment in von Trier's second trilogy "Golden Heart", following Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. If you don't like to cry during movies or hate Lars Von Trier then definitely skip it.Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 musical drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. If you like ultra-depressing movies and are prepared to cry and ruin the rest of your day then go for it. Then I cried even more when I went back to watching it. To be honest I took a break half way because I was crying so much. Not because it's bad or boring, but because of how heartbreaking it is. I'm not sure that I would recommend it though. It's probably one of my favorite movies now.
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You could say it is emotionally manipulative, and I have some nitpicks like the way it was shot and some other things, but Bjork was so great, I cried so much and I just loved this movie so much that I would feel wrong giving it anything less than five stars. It also might be the most depressing movie I've ever seen in general. This is definitely the most bleak musical I've ever seen, and probably the most bleak musical ever made.
In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens. So what are your thoughts? Is it the most depressing movie you've seen? Is it the most depressing musical ever made? How great was Bjork? Literally just thinking about her talking to the musical director about adding in some dancing for the nun part makes me start crying.Īnyway, I'm gonna copy and paste a review I wrote on letterboxd for it now, but I'd like to hear your opinions! I watch a lot of movies so I usually don't go make a post on this sub after every one I have watched, in fact I've never made a post like this, but I thought for this one I had to because it had such an effect on me.
She played the sweet and innocent character perfectly. I've never been a fan of Bjork, just because I've not listened to her music or been exposed to her, but she was amazing in this. I watched it for the first time alone a few days ago and cried a lot, I watched it again with someone else last night and figured I wouldn't cry since it was my second time and I was with someone else, but nope, cried just as much. What is r/movies thoughts on this film? I'm a fan of Von Trier and depressing movies are my favorite kind of movies, but holy shit, I had no idea it would be this depressing.
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