Dancer in the Dark (Danish: Danser i mørket) is a 2000
English-language Danish musical melodrama film written and directed by
Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a daydreaming
immigrant factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition
and is saving up to pay for an operation to prevent her young son from
suffering the same fate. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour,
Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star.The
soundtrack for the film, released as the album Selmasongs, was written
mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from
Mark Bell and the lyrics were by von Trier and Sjón. Three songs from
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music were also used in the
film.This is the third film in von Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy"; the
other two films are Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998).
The film was an international co-production among companies based in
thirteen countries and regions: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the
United States. It was shot with a handheld camera, and was somewhat
inspired by a Dogme 95 look.
English-language Danish musical melodrama film written and directed by
Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a daydreaming
immigrant factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition
and is saving up to pay for an operation to prevent her young son from
suffering the same fate. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour,
Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star.The
soundtrack for the film, released as the album Selmasongs, was written
mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from
Mark Bell and the lyrics were by von Trier and Sjón. Three songs from
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music were also used in the
film.This is the third film in von Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy"; the
other two films are Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998).
The film was an international co-production among companies based in
thirteen countries and regions: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the
United States. It was shot with a handheld camera, and was somewhat
inspired by a Dogme 95 look.
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