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by shopaholic_man  in Movies,  - Top 100, Oct 18 '06
Pros: Soundtrack and acting were top notch.
Cons: The film goes a little overboard with the melodrama.
I've spend the past week reviewing Bjork albums, so I decided to take a break from Bjork and watch a movie instead. I chose Danish director Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, a dark sad film about a young woman, Selma, who is going blind. Yes, ...
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by emptywishes - Top 1000, Apr 18 '03
Pros: lovely visuals, choreography, music
Cons: the jaw-dropping shock the end brings, perhaps.
Dancer in the Dark? Sounds like some sort of lower-budget Showgirls-type flick, doesn't it?
Well, you're wrong.
The story tells of Selma (played by Björk), a young, single mother who has recently immigrated to the US with her son,...
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by artbyjude - Top 500, Aug 16 '03
Pros: Bjork, Fallon and the entire cast, originality -this one is a work of art!
Cons: Few, except it is a harsh statement about choices made, guilt, pride and self sacrifice.
This is one of the most interesting movies I have seen this year. Profoundly moving, it stands by it ...
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by thevoid99 - Top 100, Mar 24 '04
Pros: An Excellent, Enchanting Musical from Lars von Trier with Bjork's Spellbinding Performance.
Cons: Starts Off Slow Early On.
After the release of his 1996 melodramatic masterpiece Breaking the Waves and the 1998 2nd Dogme 95 film The Idiots, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier was starting to finish another trilogy about women. For his third and final part of the ...
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by DavidK93 - Top 1000, Sep 02 '01
Pros: Acting, Music, Cinematography, Choreography
Cons: You'll have to splurge on tissues.
I’ve already had to scrap one potential title for this epinion. Before I saw the movie, I was planning to call this review “Resistance is Fjütile” (You get a gold star if you caught the reference.). However, after seeing Dancer in the Dark I...
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by metalluk - Top 100, Nov 05 '04
Pros: Strong performances by Björk, Deneuve, and Stormare; good vocal performances by Björk
Cons: Annoying cinematographic style, weak musical compositions and choreography, cloying script, thematically flawed
Dancer in the Dark is one of those films laden with controversy. Critics seem to either love it or hate it. For me personally, it was the worst film that I’ve seen in many a moon. I acknowledge, however, that many viewers find it ...
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by optionexplicit , Jan 15 '04
Pros: After making this film, Bjork promised that she would never act again.
Cons: Pretentious, depressing, and maliciously vile
Plot details: I tell all in the hopes that will be one more reason you don't need to see it. I have a dirty little secret to share. For all the joy that it gives me to heap praise on a deserving product, artist, or author, to hear people ...
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by Grouch - Top 200, Mar 24 '01
Pros: Utterly original and startling, this is raw emotion set to music. You love it...
Cons: ...or you hate it.
Dancer in the Dark is one of those movies that leaves very little middle ground: you either love it or you hate it.
I loved it.
However, I suspect there are many folks who won’t get as caught up in its strange brew of...
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by susidee34 - Top 200, Jun 16 '01
Pros: grows on you
Cons: could be irritating
I wasn't sure what to make of this movie, based on an unwed young mother from the Czech Republic, Selma (Bjork) and her son Gene (Vladica Kostic), who live in a rundown trailer in a dreary little town in Washington. Selma works at the local factory and...
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by Simply_Crispy - Top 1000, Feb 16 '02
Pros: Bjork is simply amazing, as are the visuals and songs.
Cons: If you hate your movies bleak...
For years filmmakers have been trying to reinvent the musical, with all but little success. Evita went big but hardly set the world alight, My Best Friends Wedding stuck musical numbers into its semi-standard romantic comedy, the South...
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by CyndiA - Top 50, Apr 21 '01
Pros: I could go to the bathroom/fix a sandwich and not miss anything worth seeing.
Cons: Can you say, "This movie bites?"
Boy howdy! What's up with this movie anyhow? It won some big time awards (though got some big boos from the audience when it did win—and I can sure see why).
The thing that comes to my mind when I watch this is when I went to the LA Museum...
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by Discogirl , Oct 06 '00
Pros: interesting plot, some good acting, innovative musical scenes, Bjork's voice
Cons: deeply depressing, long, slow moving, some bad acting, wobbly camera
Written and directed by Lars von Trier, "Dancer in the Dark" is a profoundly depressing and disturbing tale of the absurdity of life. One can draw many similarities between this film and the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus....
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by MzRizz , May 08 '01
Pros: Original, moving, good performances
Cons: camera angles
A sensational moving, disturbing film by Lars von Trier, who is regarded as legendary and as Europe’s most gifted filmmakers. He also directed the controversial and unconventional 1996 "Breaking the Waves" which also won many other awards. Icelandic...
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by blackmonolith , Jul 31 '01
Pros: She dies.
Cons: 132 minutes of wide, digitally-shot torture runs on and on before she does so.
This review was originally written in February. I was about to post it then, but just before I did, I made the mistake of reading repulsemonkey’s review, which blew this one away. He really got to the core of the problem of this film (and its...
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by mage67 , Oct 04 '00
Pros: An original sad story
Cons: Pretentiously Artsy
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Selma (Björk) and Bill (David Morse) sit down and share a secret. Bill has squandered his inheritance and can't afford the mortgage on his house with his meager policeman's salary. His wife's (Cara Seymour's) spendthrift habits...
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