Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Bizarre doesn't begin to describe what happens to Bjork 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. Selma slaves in a Sixties-era rural-America sink factory -- next to her friend Kathy, played by, of all people, Catherine Deneuve -- to support her ten-year-old son, Gene (Vladica Kostic), who will also go blind if Selma can't pay for an operation. Later, after…

Dancer in the Dark

In his own unique style, director Lars von Trier (Breaking The Waves) gives us a new twist on an old art form, the Hollywood musical, in his film, Dancer in the Dark.

Story

Czech immigrant and single mom Selma Jezkova (Bjork) escapes from her humdrum world by fantasizing her life as a splashy Hollywood musical. She is a hardworking, single parent who spends her days at her boring factory job and her nights rehearsing for an amateur production of The Sound of Music. She is also…