Can a movie that hinges on this many cheap tricks really ask you to buy its purity? Dancer in the Dark is like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn’t, deep down, believe in hymns.

Truly, it is a crying shame that the musical segments of Dancer in the Dark were not preserved in Cinemascope and Technicolor, because they're not only the best parts of the movie (brilliantly ...

"IN MUSICALS, nothing dreadful ever happens," says Selma (Bjork), the sprite-like child-woman at the center of Lars von Trier's mesmerizing "Dancer in the Dark." This rapturous regard for musicals ...

Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe what happens to Björk in Dancer in the Dark. Danish writer-director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) has boldly cast the Icelandic diva as Selma, a Czech ...

Vivid, frustrating, breathlessly beautiful and at times overpoweringly brutal, "Dancer in the Dark" is a tough movie to fit into your head. Measure it by slick Hollywood standards and it will ...

Though "Dancer in the Dark" won the Palm d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, von Trier's achievement is too long-winded and wavering to be completely satisfying.

Meet the talented cast and crew behind 'Dancer in the Dark (2000)' on Moviefone. Explore detailed bios, filmographies, and the creative team's insights. Dive into the heart of this movie through ...

Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," that most morose of musicals, is so exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly ...

That’s one of the questions raised by Lars von Trier’s controversial “Dancer in the Dark.”On one level, almost nothing in the movie works.

The fascinating thing about this film is it is almost as if the audience is treated to two movies - one, a hand-held documentary melodrama, the other an all-singing, all-dancing Hollywood musical ...

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Can a movie that hinges on this many cheap tricks really ask you to buy its purity? ”Dancer in the Dark” is like a naive modernist hymn made by someone who doesn’t, deep down, believe in hymns.