Dancer in the Dark

An intellectually challenged woman suffers from a disease which is making her go blind. Her young son will have the same fate, unless he has an operation to correct the problem. She has been working and saving hard to get the money for the operation. With her eyesight failing fast, she loses her job, and then her landlord, with money problems of his own, steals her savings. Desperate for her son's vision, she tries to get it back, but things go badly wrong... landing her in jail.

134 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence) .
Drama, Musical, On the Art Circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

I'll kill you if you don't kill me!

Credits

Cast	Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare
Director	Lars von Trier
Screenplay	Lars von Trier
Music	Björk
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2000
Produced by	A consortium of about 30 companies

Official Site

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Movies for Africa Ian Douglas	5
Cape Argus Derek Wilson	10
Cape Argus Adrian Monteath	5
The Cape Times Christopher Rodrigues	15
The Star Diane de Beer	14
Die Burger Francois Smith	10
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	10
Rapport Barrie Hough	18
SAfm Screen & Co Alan Swerdlow	8
eye Weekly Jason Anderson	10
Box Office Lael Loewenstein	10
Rough Cut Andy Klein	18
Total Film Dan Jolin	20
Film Review James Cameron-Wilson	20
What the People say
Internet 2508 Netizens	17
Average .. 63%	13

Visitor Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
Anthony Richard	16
Average .. 80%	16

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: This film has divided critics and audiences all over. I am one of those who did not like it, while others praise it as high art. The hand-held camera use was excessive, making me want to scream to keep the damn thing still. The musical interludes add nothing to the plot and merely irritated, especially when Bjork sang in her five-year-old girlie voice. The motivation for the lead character to get herself into such a mess -- and stay there -- made no sense, and I got to thinking that maybe the gene pool would be better off without such a stupid person in it.

Anthony Richard (40): It is a story about how a legal system may fail a person most in need of insight.

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Dancer in the Dark

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 63%

Visitor Ratings

Average .. 80%

Visitor Comments