Dancer In The Dark
 

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2000

Dancer in the Dark (original Danish title: Også i mørke) is a 2000 Danish musical drama film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Icelandic singer Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, and Peter Stormare. 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.

Dancer in the Dark is the third film in Lars von Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy;" the previous two films were Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). The film was an international co-production between companies based in several countries: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Norway. It was shot with a handheld camera, and was somewhat inspired by a Dogme 95 look.

Dancer in the Dark premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to standing ovations and controversy and was awarded the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress award for Björk. The song "I've Seen It All," with Thom Yorke, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Fantastic movie and soundtrack! I made the mistake of showing the movie to my mom. She had to leave the room, and my stepfather scolded me for it. I've probably seen it 10 times and I cry every time!

Oh, this is a good place to ask! I've always wanted to see this movie, but I've heard it's pretty violent, and I have a hard time with graphic violence in movies. How bad is it? What's the worst of it?

It has some violent scenes, but it's more gut-wrenching emotional than anything else.

I don't remember anything violent. In fact, I remember the off-screen bits are the one this film is "notorious" for.

I've Seen It All is one of the most beautiful songs in existence: the pathos of it, and the scene, on a train, and Thom Yorke. "I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be, I've seen it all — there is no more to see..." I shudder to think there's a way to make it better.
Anyone know what she was singing in between verses?

there is one murder and it's quite violent in my opinion, but I guess it's mostly a very emotionally violent film (it's great but completely manipulative).

I agree that it's manipulative. I only remember the factory, the train, the steps and the hanging http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/embarass.gif
And it's in DITD era that the swan dress first made its appearance! I think it goes to show how weird my taste is that I actually like it very much:

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The egg's the best http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gif

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(I hated this movie so, so much. I thought it was manipulative pity-porn.) (I really liked the actors, though.)

I have tried to watch this movie twice, but both times it made me sick. I am one of "those people" who cannot watch films that have really jumpy camera work ... it fucks with me and makes me pass out/vomit. I went to see DITD at the movies and I got quite nauseas and left after about 15 minutes. Then when it came out on dvd I rented it to watch at home and I only got through 10-15 minutes of it before I was feeling faint http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

A real shame because I loved the soundtrack and I heard so much about it but I don't know if I will ever be able to physically watch it.

(Yes, I am a pussy http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gif)

I'm not sure I've cried to hard in a movie as I did for this one.

Yeah it's a toss up between this and Artificial Intelligence on the crying hard levels for me.

This was my first taste of Lars Von Trier and it completely devastated me. I remember when I was watching some of the bloodiest/shock/gore films that are now common-place top of the box office movies (that I no longer support with my buck with the exception of "No Country for Old Men" which was pure torture to me) when I was younger, but none of them disturbed me so much as this film.. then of course I had to watch "Breaking the Waves" and "Dogville" and "Anti-Christ"