Top billed cast

1. 

   Björk

   Selma Jezkova

2. 

   Catherine Deneuve

   Kathy

3. 

   David Morse

   Bill Houston

4. 

   Peter Stormare

   Jeff

5. 

   Joel Grey

   Oldrich Novy

6. 

   Cara Seymour

   Linda Houston

7. 

   Vladica Kostic

   Gene Jezkova

8. 

   Jean-Marc Barr

   Norman

9. 

   Vincent Paterson

   Samuel

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Reviews

A review by badelf

Written by badelf on 2025-10-31

I have tremendous respect for Lars von Trier's work, and I deeply admire his courage in attempting to fuse drama with musical theater. "Dancer in the Dark" is nothing if not audacious. Unfortunately, ambition alone doesn't make a successful film, and this one fails both as a drama and as a musical.

As drama, the film stumbles on two fundamental levels. First, the handheld, shaky camera movement is completely unnecessary. Von Trier broke other Dogme 95 rules throughout this film, so why cling to this one annoying restriction? The constant jittering ruins suspension of disbelief, pulling us o...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$12,500,000.00

Revenue
$40,061,153.00

Keywords

• factory worker
• individual
• immigrant
• blindness and impaired vision
• dancing
• eye operation
• small town
• naivety
• hereditary disease
• robbery
• court
• musical
• female friendship
• murder
• debt
• police officer
• trailer
• daydreaming
• mother son relationship
• bitter