Film

Dancer in the Dark 2000

Directed by Lars von Trier

  • Drama, Crime
  • 140 min
  • R

In a world of shadows, she found the light of life.

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

DramaCrimefactory workerindividualimmigrantblindness and impaired visiondancingeye operationsmall townnaivetyhereditary diseaserobberycourtmusical
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  • Bleak ending

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Overwhelming, prestige, grave and contemporary.

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  • unpretentiousprestige
  • gravecomic
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • warmbleak

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