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 ...

Film Critic Henry Sheehan reviews The Dancer in the Dark, the new film directed and written by Lars von Trier.

At once kitschy and contrived, ”Dancer in the Dark” is a grandiloquent exercise in holier than thou martyrdom, yet I do think that its musical numbers, in contrast to the rest of the film, are ...

Leave it to the French to stir things up. Last May, in another one of their audacious moves, the jury at Cannes embraced "Dancer in the Dark" director Lars von Trier and his volatile star Bjork by ...

In both these senses, Dancer In The Dark is a very different musical. Yes, there are seven full-blown song and dance numbers, but each is presented as a fantasy conjured purely by Selma.

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 ...

(CNN) -- Lars von Trier's revisionist musical, "Dancer in the Dark," is a perplexing film that contains moments of astonishing power. Von Trier -- who loves to polarize audiences -- simply doesn't ...

Danish director Lars von Trier ("The Idiots", "Breaking the Waves"), winner of this year's 'Palme d'or' for his latest film "Dancer in the Dark", brings us an exhilarating and emotional musical ...