Review of Dancer in the Dark (2000) by Daniel M — 25 Jul 2008
Dancer in the Dark is an interesting film, and Lars von Trier tries out some daring, intelligent new things in it . It's still unbearable. I have to admit I'm a bit prejudiced against Bjork--after about a song or two, she really begins to get on my nerves--but her character in the film seems terribly flawed to me, too.
A Czech immigrant to the US, going blind while performing mind-numbing industrial labor, her musical reveries give way to martyrdom, but I somehow can't manage to find her dreamy personality sympathetic.
(Isn't she at least capable of some basic logic?!) The combination of song-and-dance numbers with capital punishment certainly is novel, and the subtext about vision and the use of different film stocks in the musical sequences is well thought-out, but it doesn't go very far toward redeeming what is otherwise an awful movie.
This review of Dancer in the Dark (2000) was written by Daniel M on 25 Jul 2008.
Dancer in the Dark has generally received very positive reviews.
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