Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark

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In small-town Washington state in 1964, Czechoslovakian immigrant Selma Jezková and her preteen son Gene live in a rented trailer owned by Bill and Linda Houston; Bill is the town sheriff. Selma also has a small group of friends, including her co-worker and primary confidante Kathy, and Jeff, who wants to be her boyfriend. Jeff regularly waits outside Selma's workplace to drive her home, although she always refuses, not wishing to lead him on. Her primary job is working on t... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Dancer in the Dark:

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Catherine Deneuve
David Morse
Peter Stormare
Joel Grey
Cara Seymour

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In small-town Washington state in 1964, Czechoslovakian immigrant Selma Jezková and her preteen son Gene live in a rented trailer owned by Bill and Linda Houston; Bill is the town sheriff. Selma also has a small group of friends, including her co-worker and primary confidante Kathy, and Jeff, who wants to be her boyfriend. Jeff regularly waits outside Selma's workplace to drive her home, although she always refuses, not wishing to lead him on. Her primary job is working on the Anderson Tool factory assembly line, but she does whatever else she can to earn money. What only Kathy knows among Selma's friends is that she is slowly going blind from a genetic medical condition. She can see just enough to be able to do her job. Her primary reason for moving to the USA and working all the time is to earn enough money for an operation for Gene when he turns 13; he knows nothing about his mother's or his own degenerative eyesight. Selma allows only one indulgence in her life: anything to do with musicals which she loves, because they're an escape from her bleak life. Kathy often takes her to the cinema to watch old musicals and must describe to her what's happening on the screen, to the other patrons' annoyance. Selma also has the role of Maria in a community-theatre production of "The Sound of Music." Close to having enough money for the operation, Selma races against time before she loses enough sight to lose her job and her role in the musical. What may also threaten Selma's goal of the operation for Gene is some financial problems facing Bill, who feels pressured to provide Linda with the comforts of life to which she's accustomed.

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CheckOut.com - 10/10 by Ed ScharfNo matter how bizarre or off-putting the film may be at times, it is infinitely more engrossing.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Edward GuthmannIt's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness.
rec.arts.movies.reviews - 10/10 by David N. ButterworthThe musical is dead. Long live the musical! Lars Von Trier has not only resurrected the form in his latest film, he has reinvented it.
Globe and Mail - 10/10 by Liam LaceyAt least Dancer in the Dark is bad in a complicated way.
eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by Rob GonsalvesEven without the musical numbers, von Trier has given us a compelling story with original characters.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 10/10 by Philip Martin...a calculated attack on conventional sentimentality and Hollywood illusion; the kind of movie that means to frustrate your expectations rather than affirm your assumptions.
The Film Yap - 10/10 by Nick RogersHabitually galling director Lars von Trier's musical is a black-swan genre rarity - a 1960s-set sledgehammer to Broadway and Hollywood's insistence on sunshiny endings in golden-era musicals about Nazis, murder and suicide.
Reel.com - 10/10 by Rod ArmstrongThe Danish director has made an incredibly dour, music-tinged drama that might break some hearts, but just made me want to break things.
Fashion Wire Daily - 9/10 by Brandon JudellBut I had no contract, me and Lars, because I come from the punk school of thought. It was all based on trust. So I walked off the set.
Charlotte Observer - 9/10 by Lawrence ToppmanCan be unbearably moving or annoyingly mawkish, sometimes in the same scene.

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