Some reasonable people will admire Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," and others will despise it. Dancer in the Dark movie reviews & Metacritic score: Bjork stars as Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a factory in rural America. If it weren't for a terrific central performance by the Icelandic pop singer Bjork, Dancer in the Dark would be all but unwatchable.
Accompanied by Gregor, David tackles his first Lars von Trier movie: "Dancer in the Dark". What he and Gregor thought of it? Watch the review to find out!
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 immigrant on the verge of blindness. But no one has succeeded in making a truly modern movie musical, one that employs emerging filmmaking techniques instead of reaching back In fact, no one has ever even attempted something like "Dancer In the Dark." Writer and director Lars von Trier -- the reclusive Dane behind the. Dancer in the Dark is graced with a particular genius for absorbing the past to suggest an exciting cinematic future — one in which 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. For certain, Björk in this movie is no more or less a preposterous presence than Catherine Deneuve, who plays Kathy, her friend, an improbably French There is a brilliant experimentalism at work in Dancer in the Dark, a flash of style and braggadocio.
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But it does not sustain this long movie, and I. Read the Empire Movie review of Dancer In The Dark. The storyline may be pure melodrama, but Bjork's performance and Von Trier's off-kilter direction.
The moment Bjork opens her little mouth to belt out her first big number, it's clear she and director Lars von Trier have managed to defibrillate the moribund movie musical; bursting into song again seems like a viable means of expression. That's the film's greatest achievement, aside. Movie reviews for Dancer In The Dark. MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer.