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The final installment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudorealism, fabricated melodrama, and the priciples of the Dogme 95 genre to a dangerously intense level. The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, in order to save up enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene of the same disease. To pass the time, Selma fantasizes that her own life is a musical, one in which her friends join her in sweeping song-and-dance routines. After her neighbor Bill (David Morse) discovers Selma's hidden savings and steals them from her, she is forced to perform an act of salvation that will condemn her forever. As the innocent Selma, Björk is one of the most fragile and heartbreaking presences the screen has ever seen. Her unbearably moving performance is enough to keep the viewer mesmerized throughout, even amid the story gaps and inconsistencies. Featuring compassionate supporting turns by Catherine Deneuve and Peter Stormare, DANCER IN THE DARK is an unrelenting gut punch that will have sympathetic audiences quivering with uncontrollable emotion.
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Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.85
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
DTS Surround 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Song Access:
1. Jump to a Song with Commentary by Bjork
Documentary:
1. 100 CAMERAS: CAPTURING LARS VON TRIER'S VISION
2. CREATING VINCENT PATERSON'S DANCE SEQUENCES
Alternate Scenes:
1. CVALDA
2. Alternate version of I'VE SEEN IT ALL
3. Second Alternate version of I'VE SEEN IT ALL
Audio Commentary:
1. Lars Von Trier - Director, Wibeke Windloev - Producer, Per Kirkeby - Artist, Peter Hjorth - Technical Supervisor
2. Vincent Paterson - Choreographer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies: Cast & Crew
DVD-ROM Features:
Web Access
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- Winner, 2000 Cannes: Palme d'Or
- Winner, 2000 Cannes: Best Actress - Björk
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- Surround Sound
- DTS Stereo
- Noise Reduction - Dolby
- Recording Mode - Dolby Surround AC-3
- Closed Captioned
- Color - Color
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Posted on December 14, 2006
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