Dancer In The Dark
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Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or / Best Actress European Film Awards - Best Film Academy Award Nominee |
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"A thrilling, audacious work." — San Francisco Chronicle
The singer-actress Björk dazzles in this mesmerizing drama about a woman who escapes into the fantasy of old Hollywood musicals while she works a dreary factory job in rural America. Selma's determined to save up for an operation that would keep her son from avoiding the illness that's already disabled her. But when a desperate neighbor falsely accuses Selma of stealing his savings, the drama of her real world and her imagined musical world merge into a shocking finale.
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Dancer in the Dark is a Danish musical drama film released in 2000. It was directed by Lars von Trier and stars Icelandic singer Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Vladica Kostic, Cara Seymour and Peter Stormare. The soundtrack for the film, released as the album Selmasongs, was written mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from Mark Bell and the lyrics were by Lars Von Trier and Sjón. Three songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music were also used in the film.
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