DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars Von Trier) 2000; DVD (Newline Platinum Series)
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DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars Von Trier) 2000; DVD (Newline Platinum Series)
Arthouse/Dogme95/Special Edition DVD, Used – Loaded with extras (inc. 2 documentaries)
Dancer in the Dark is a movie about Selma Jezkova (Björk), a factory worker from the ’60s, who is slowly going blind. She has a genetic disease that she knows her 12-year old son will inherit, therefore she is saving up money so he can get an operation when he turns 13. She’s extremely poor, she lives in a trailer she’s renting from the town’s policeman, Bill Houston (David Morse), who lives with his wife near Selma’s trailer, and who is helping her with the money. Her only friends, Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) and Jeff (Peter Stormare) help her as well in her everyday-life routine. Everything starts to go downhill when the policeman doesn’t have any more money to give her and, taking advantage of the fact that she’s going completely blind, steals all the money that she saved up for her son’s operation. That’s when Selma starts to ‘dance in the dark’, both literally and metaphorically. The movie wasn’t particularly well-received, especially by the critics. It’s not a pleasant movie to watch; everything in it makes you feel uncomfortable, and especially mainstream audiences feel uncomfortable, since the movie is so unconventional. It’s filmed by following almost all of the Dogme 95 rules: it uses hand-held digital cameras to create a documentary-style look, with no background music.
