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Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)

starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey
directed by: Lars von Trier

: Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780634084
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078063408X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 9768
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000



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Product Description:
Recording star bjork is miraculous as selma a factory worker in ruarl america and single mother who is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate selma is saving her money to get him an operation. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Deneuve David Morse Run time: 141 minutes Rating: R Director: Lars Von Trier

Amazon.com:
Masterpiece or masquerade? Lars von Trier's digicam musical split the critics in two when it debuted at Cannes in 2000. There were those who saw it as a cynical shock-opera from a manipulative charlatan, others wept openly at its scenes of raw emotion and heart-rending intensity. There is, however, no in-between. Dancer in the Dark is that rarest of creatures, a film that dares to push viewers to the limits of their feelings.

In her first and most probably last screen performance (she has foresworn acting after her bruising on-set rows with von Trier), brittle Icelandic chanteuse Björk plays Selma, a Czech immigrant living in a folksy American small town with her young son, Gene. Selma is going blind and so will Gene if she does not arrange an important operation for him. To cover the expense, Selma works every hour she can, cheating on her eye tests so she can keep working at the local factory long after her vision has become too unreliable to work safely. She sublets a house from a local cop, Bill (David Morse), and his wife, Linda (Cara Seymour). When nearly bankrupt Bill asks Selma for a loan, she refuses, but he later returns and steals the money, which she demands back in a furious confrontation. In the ensuing melee, Bill is fatally shot and Selma is arrested and put on trial. Will justice prevail?

Von Trier's passionate, provocative film runs all our emotional resources dry with suspense, giving us occasional flashes into Selma's gold heart and mind with superb song-and-dance numbers she conjures to banish the nightmare (Björk also wrote the score). At some two-and-a-half hours, it's not for lightweights, but anyone bored with today's smug, 'ironic' cinema will relish this as an astonishing assault on the senses and a stark reminder of von Trier's uncompromising talent. --Damon Wise



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - wow!
Extremely powerful and emotional. Raw. Truly original and like nothing I have ever seen before. I ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - a keeper
Amazing film! Haunting memories for months.

Not for the mainstream movie goer.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - will make you sob uncontrollably
I've never seen a movie that gets at your core and gets under your skin like this film. I'm attracted ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great Marxist film

Did anyone notice wahat a beautiful Marxist fim this is. Could be one of the top 10 movies I ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Bjork & Lars von Trier's collaberation pays off
What starts as a seemingly low budget, shaky camerawork & an improvised sounding dialogue, turns into ... Read More

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