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Dancer In The Dark
Dancer In The Dark
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lars von Trier
Written by	Lars von Trier
Produced by	Vibeke Windeløv
Starring	Björk; Catherine Deneuve; David Morse; Peter Stormare; Joel Grey;
Cinematography	Robby Müller
Edited by	François Gédigier; Molly Marlene Stensgård;
Music by	Björk
Production; companies	Zentropa Entertainments; Canal+; FilmFour; France 3 Cinéma;
Distributed by	Angel Films (Denmark); Les films du losange (France); Constantin Film (Germany); Istituto Luce (Italy); Sandrew Metronome (Sweden); FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom); Fine Line Features (United States)
Release dates	17 May 2000 (Cannes); 1 September 2000 (Denmark previews); 8 September 2000 (Scandinavia);
Running time	140 minutes
Countries	Denmark; France; Germany; Italy; Sweden; United Kingdom; United States;
Language	English
Budget	USD$12.5 million; (120 million kr)
Box office	$45.6 million; (416 million kr)

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Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy^[7] film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star. The soundtrack for the film, Selmasongs, was written mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from Mark Bell and some of the lyrics were written by von Trier and Sjón.

Dancer in the Dark is the third and final installment in von Trier's second trilogy "Golden Heart", following Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998).^[8] It was an international co-production among companies based in thirteen European and North American countries and regions.^[9] Like the first installment, it was shot with a handheld camera inspired by Dogme 95.^[10]

Dancer in the Dark premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress Award for Björk.^[11] The film received generally positive reviews, with Björk's performance being widely praised.

The song "I've Seen It All" performed and co-written by Björk, with Sjón and von Trier, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to "Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan from Wonder Boys.^[12]

Plot

In Washington state in 1964, Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant, has moved to the United States with her 12-year-old son, Gene Ježek. They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, whom she nicknames Cvalda. She rents a trailer home on the property of local police officer Bill Houston and his wife, Linda. She is romantically pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff, who also works at the factory.

Selma is gradually losing her vision due to a degenerative eye condition, but still is saving money to pay for an operation that will prevent Gene from sharing her fate. She also takes part in rehearsals for a production of The Sound of Music and accompanies Kathy to the local cinema, where together they watch Hollywood musicals, as Kathy describes them to her.

In her day-to-day life, Selma slips into daydreams, imagining herself in a musical ("Cvalda"). Jeff and Kathy begin to realize that Selma's vision is worse than they thought, and that she has been memorizing eye charts in order to pass vision tests and keep her job. Bill reveals to Selma that Linda's excessive spending has put the couple's house in danger of foreclosure by their bank. He has contemplated suicide but cannot bring himself to carry out the act. Selma promises to keep his secret and confides in him about her advancing vision loss. Bill quietly stays without knowing that Selma still sees him and watches her hide her money in a tin.

The next day, Selma's boss Norman believes that her eye condition has deteriorated; he accepts her resignation and pays her final wages, but promises to re-hire her once her sight has improved. However, Kathy accuses him of firing her. Not willing to get her job back, Jeff tries to escort her home by car, but she goes home by train ("I've Seen It All"). Opening the tin to add her money it it, Selma finds it empty. Realizing that Bill has robbed her, she goes to his house to confront him. Linda accuses Selma of trying to seduce her husband, explaining that Bill told her Selma wanted him for his money. Not wanting to reveal her knowledge of the impending foreclosure, Selma ignores Linda and confronts Bill about the theft. They fight over the money, with Bill drawing a gun only to be accidentally shot by Selma.

Bill yells for Linda to call the police, saying that Selma has tried to rob him, then begs Selma to kill him, telling her it is the only way she will ever reclaim her stolen money. Selma shoots Bill several times, but only wounds him further due to her poor vision, and finally beats him to death with a safe deposit box once the gun runs out of ammunition. She slips into a trance and imagines that Bill's corpse stands up and slow dances with her ("Smith & Wesson"). Taking her money back, she flees the house and pays for Gene's operation in advance.

Not knowing about the murder, Jeff takes Selma to rehearsal, where her director calls the police to have her arrested ("In the Musicals, Part 1"). In court, she is accused of being a Communist sympathizer and of pretending to be blind to exploit the American healthcare system. Although she tells as much truth about the situation as she can, she refuses to reveal Bill's secret, saying that she had promised not to. When her claim of sending all her money to her father in Czechoslovakia is proven false, she is convicted of murder and sentenced to death ("In the Musicals, Part 2"). Kathy and Jeff eventually figure out what happened and recover Selma's money, using it instead to pay for a trial lawyer who can free her. Selma refuses the lawyer, opting to face execution by hanging rather than let her son go blind, but she is deeply distraught as she awaits her death ("107 Steps"). As Selma reaches the gallows, she begins to panic and the guards strap her to a board. Kathy runs in with news that the operation has saved Gene's vision and gives his glasses to Selma. Relieved, Selma sings a final song on the gallows with no musical accompaniment, but is hanged before she can finish the last verse; the final lines are displayed as the proceedings conclude ("Next to Last Song").

Cast

Björk as Selma Ježková
Catherine Deneuve as Kathy (Cvalda)
David Morse as Bill Houston
Peter Stormare as Jeff
Joel Grey as Oldřich Nový
Cara Seymour as Linda Houston
Vladica Kostic as Gene Ježek
Jean-Marc Barr as Norman
Vincent Paterson as Samuel
Siobhan Fallon as Brenda
Željko Ivanek as District attorney
Udo Kier as Dr. Pokorný
Jens Albinus as Morty
Reathel Bean as Judge
Michael Flessas as Angry man
Mette Berggreen as Receptionist
Lars Michael Dinesen as Defense attorney
Katrine Falkenberg as Suzan
Stellan Skarsgård as the doctor

Production

The film's title suggests the Fred Astaire/Cyd Charisse duet "Dancing in the Dark" from the 1953 film The Band Wagon, which ties in with the film's musical theatre theme.^{[citation needed]}

Actress Björk, who is known primarily as a contemporary musician, had rarely acted before, and described the process of making this film as so emotionally taxing that she would not act in any film ever again^[13]^[14] (although she appeared in Matthew Barney's film installation Drawing Restraint 9 in 2005, and in Robert Eggers' The Northman). Trier and others have described her performance as feeling rather than acting.^[15] Björk has said that it is a misunderstanding that she was put off acting by this film; rather, she never wanted to act but made an exception for Lars von Trier.^[16]

The musical sequences were filmed simultaneously with over 100 digital cameras so that multiple angles of the performance could be captured and cut together later, thus shortening the filming schedule.^{[citation needed]}

Björk lies down on a stack of birch logs during the "Scatterheart" sequence. In Icelandic and Swedish, björk means "birch".^[17]

A Danish MY class locomotive and one T43 (both owned by Swedish train operator TÅGAB) were painted in the American Great Northern scheme for the film, and not repainted afterward.^[18]^[19]

Style

Much of the film has a similar look to von Trier's earlier Dogme 95-influenced films: it is filmed on low-end, hand-held digital cameras to create a documentary-style appearance. It is not a true Dogme 95 film, however, because the Dogme rules stipulate that violence, non-diegetic music, and period pieces are not permitted. Trier differentiates the musical sequences from the rest of the film by using static cameras and by brightening the colours.^{[citation needed]}

Music

Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack 'Dancer in the Dark is the first soundtrack album by Icelandic musician Björk. It was released on September 18, 2000, by One Little Indian Records to promote and accompany the film Dancer in the Dark. In the film, Björk starred as Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant who has moved to the United States. The album features classical arrangements, as well as melodies and beats composed of sounds from mundane objects, such as factory machines and trains.

Notably, some songs on the album have lyrics that are substantially different from their lyrics in the film, the most pronounced example being "Scatterheart". The album omits the vocals of actors David Morse, Cara Seymour and Vladica Kostic. Some lyrics were rewritten, perhaps to prevent spoiling crucial plot details, since the soundtrack was released in stores before the movie opened in theaters, or to make the record flow better as a stand-alone album. In particular, on the song "I've Seen It All", Thom Yorke performs the words sung by Peter Stormare in the film. In addition, the tracks "My Favourite Things" and the original "Next to Last Song" do not appear on the album at all, despite appearances in the film.

The track "I've Seen It All" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was released as a promotional single in 2000. For the track, Björk made a "webeo" with director Floria Sigismondi that premiered on September 1, 2000, on MTV.com. It used a shorter version of the song that the singer recorded specifically for the webeo.^[20]

Original music: Björk
Singers: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, Siobhan Fallon, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Edward Ross (for Vladica Kostic), Joel Grey, Peter Stormare (In the soundtrack Selmasongs, Thom Yorke sings instead of Stormare)
Lyrics: Björk, Lars von Trier and Sjón
Non-original music: Richard Rodgers (from The Sound of Music)
Non-original lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II (from The Sound of Music)
Choreographer: Vincent Paterson

Controversy

In October 2017, Björk, in the wake of dozens of sexual abuse cases brought against film producer Harvey Weinstein, posted on her Facebook page that she had been sexually harassed by a "Danish film director she worked with".^[21] She commented:

It was extremely clear to me when I walked into the actresses profession that my humiliation and role as a lesser sexually harassed being was the norm and set in stone with the director and a staff of dozens who enabled it and encouraged it. I became aware of that it is a universal thing that a director can touch and harass his actresses at will and the institution of film allows it. When I turned the director down repeatedly he sulked and punished me and created for his team an impressive net of illusion where I was framed as the difficult one. ... and in my opinion he had a more fair and meaningful relationship with his actresses after my confrontation so there is hope. Let's hope this statement supports the actresses and actors all over. Let's stop this. There is a wave of change in the world.^[22]

The Los Angeles Times found evidence identifying him as Lars von Trier.^[23] Von Trier has rejected Björk's allegation that he sexually harassed her during the making of the film Dancer in the Dark, and said "That was not the case. But that we were definitely not friends, that's a fact", to Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in its online edition.^[24]^[25] Peter Aalbæk Jensen, the producer of Dancer in the Dark, told Jyllands-Posten that "as far as I remember we [Lars von Trier and I] were the victims. That woman was stronger than both Lars von Trier and me and our company put together. She dictated everything and was about to close a movie of 100m kroner [$16m]".^[25]^[26] After von Trier's statement, Björk explained the details about this incident:^[27]

In the spirit of #metoo I would like to lend women around the world a hand with a more detailed description of my experience with a Danish director. It feels extremely difficult to come out with something of this nature into the public, especially when immediately ridiculed by offenders. I fully sympathise with everyone who hesitates, even for years. But I feel it is the right time especially now when it could make a change. Here comes a list of the encounters that I think count as sexual harassment:
After each take the director ran up to me and wrapped his arms around me for a long time in front of all crew or alone and stroked me sometimes for minutes against my wishes.

When after 2 months of this i said he had to stop the touching, he exploded and broke a chair in front of everyone on set. Like someone who has always been allowed to fondle his actresses. Then we all got sent home.

During the whole filming process there were constant awkward paralysing unwanted whispered sexual offers from him with graphic descriptions, sometimes with his wife standing next to us.

While filming in Sweden, he threatened to climb from his room's balcony over to mine in the middle of the night with a clear sexual intention, while his wife was in the room next door. I escaped to my friends room. This was what finally woke me up to the severity of all this and made me stand my ground.

Fabricated stories in the press about me being difficult by his producer. This matches beautifully the Weinstein methods and bullying. I have never eaten a shirt. Not sure that is even possible.

I didn't comply or agree on being sexually harassed. That was then portrayed as me being difficult. If being difficult is standing up to being treated like that, i'll own it.

Hope
Let's break this curse.
Warmth
Björk

Björk's manager, Derek Birkett, has also accused von Trier's actions in the past:^[28]

I have worked with Björk for over 30 years and have never made a single statement or interview regarding our work together. This time is different.
I have read the lies written by Lars and his producer Peter about Björk – and feel compelled to speak out and put the record straight. Over the last 30 years, the Dancer in the Dark project is the one and only time she has fallen out with a collaborator.
This was a result of the directors ongoing, disrespectful verbal and physical abuse which continued after both Björk and myself demanded that he stop behaving this way. Björk completed the film out of respect for the cast and everyone involved. I feel compelled to publicly speak out in fierce support of Björk in regards to her terrible experiences working with Lars Von Trier, and I back what she has said 110%.

The Guardian later found that Jensen's studio, Zentropa, with which von Trier frequently collaborated, had an endemic culture of sexual harassment. Jensen stepped down from CEO position of Zentropa as further harassment allegations came to light in 2017.^[29]

Reception

Critical response

At the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Dancer in the Dark earned positive reviews from 70% of 122 critics, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The critics consensus on the website reads, "Dancer in Dark can be grim, dull, and difficult to watch, but even so, it has a powerful and moving performance from Björk and is something quite new and visionary".^[30] According to Metacritic, which assigned the film a weighted average score of 63/100 based on 33 critic reviews, the film received "generally favorable reviews".^[31]

On The Movie Show, Margaret Pomeranz gave it five stars while David Stratton gave it a zero, a score shared only by Geoffrey Wright's Romper Stomper (1992).^[32]^[33] Stratton later described it as his "favourite horror film".^[34] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian dubbed Dancer in the Dark the "most shallow and crudely manipulative" film of 2000,^[35] and in 2009 he described it as "one of the worst films, one of the worst artworks and perhaps one of the worst things in the history of the world".^[36]

The film was praised for its stylistic innovations. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "It smashes down the walls of habit that surround so many movies. It returns to the wellsprings. It is a bold, reckless gesture".^[37] Edward Guthmann from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness".^[38] However, criticism was directed at its storyline. Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post described the film as "meretricious fakery" and called it "so unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke".^[39] Fiachra Gibbons, writing for The Guardian, considered the film to be "the most unusual, extraordinary feel-good musical ever made".^[40]

In 2016, David Ehrlich ranked Dancer in the Dark as one of the best films of the 21st century, hailing Björk's performance as the "single greatest feat of film acting" since 2000.^[41] Björk's performance is also ranked in the "25 Best Performances Not Nominated for an Oscar of the 21st Century" list.^[42] Mia Goth credited the performance as one of her main influences, dubbing it "perfect" and "faultless".^[43]^[44]

Box office

The film previewed on 12 screens in Denmark where it grossed 1,562,965 Danish krone ($180,223). It officially opened in Scandinavia on 8 September 2000 where it grossed a disappointing $288,723 in its opening weekend. It grossed $103,102 (kr. 0.9 million) from 49 screens in Denmark, finishing in second place behind X-Men. In Sweden, it opened in fifth place with a gross of 928,621 Swedish krona ($96,330) from 34 screens. It also opened in fifth place in Norway with a gross of 587,495 Norwegian krone ($63,858). In Finland, it came sixth with a gross of 152,598 Finnish markka ($25,433) from six screens.^[45] Overall, it grossed $45.6 million worldwide, including $4.2 million in the United States and Canada.^[5] It was number one at the Japanese box office for three weeks.^[46]

Accolades

Dancer in the Dark premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress award for Björk.^[47] The song "I've Seen It All" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, at the performance of which Björk wore her famous swan dress.

Sight & Sound magazine conducts a poll every ten years of the world's finest film directors to find out the Ten Greatest Films of All Time. This poll has been going since 1952, and has become the most recognised poll of its kind in the world.^[48] In 2012, Cyrus Frisch was one of the four directors who voted for Dancer in the Dark. Frisch commented: "A superbly imaginative film that leaves conformity in shambles".^[49] Director Oliver Schmitz also lauded the work as "relentless, claustrophobic, the best movie about capital punishment as far as I'm concerned".^[50]

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref(s)
Academy Awards	25 March 2001	Best Original Song	"I've Seen It All" – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón	Nominated	^[51]
Bodil Awards	2001	Best Danish Film	Lars von Trier	Nominated	^[52]
Bodil Awards	2001	Best Actress	Björk	Won	^[53]
Cannes Film Festival	May 2000	Palme d'Or	Lars von Trier	Won	^[47]
Cannes Film Festival	May 2000	Best Actress	Björk	Won	^[47]
César Awards	24 February 2001	Best Foreign Film	Lars von Trier	Nominated	^[54]
European Film Awards	2 December 2000	Best Film	Lars von Trier	Won	^[55]
		Best Actress	Björk	Won
		Best Director – People's Choice	Lars von Trier	Won
		Best Actress – People's Choice	Björk	Won
Independent Spirit Awards	March 2001	Best Foreign Film	Lars von Trier	Won	^[56]
Golden Globes	21 January 2001	Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama	Björk	Nominated	^[57]
Golden Globes	21 January 2001	Best Original Song	"I've Seen It All" – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón	Nominated	^[57]
Goya Awards	2001	Best European Film	Lars von Trier	Won	^[58]

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Georg Tiefenbach: Drama und Regie (Writing and Directing): Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010. ISBN 978-3-8260-4096-2.

External links

[1] "Dancer in the Dark". Danish Film Database. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

[uni-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Dancer in the Dark (2000)". UniFrance. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

[LasagnaLena2003-3] Lasagna, Roberto; Lena, Sandra (May 2003). Lars von Trier. Gremese Editore. p. 124. ISBN 978-88-7301-543-7. Retrieved 15 October 2010.

[4] "DANCER IN THE DARK (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 13 July 2000. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

[numbers-5] "Dancer in the Dark – Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

[mojo-6] "Dancer in the Dark (2000)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

[7] "'Dancer in the Dark': Tragic and Entrancing".

[8] EmanuelLevy (16 November 2010). "Dancer in the Dark (2000): Von Trier's Cannes Fest Top Prize-Winning Film Starring Bjork | Emanuel Levy". Retrieved 17 August 2021.

[9] BFI. "DANCER IN THE DARK (2000)". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2021.

[10] "Molly Malene Stensgaard "Dialogue with the Audience"". Visegrad Film Forum. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

[11] "Dancer in the Dark | film by von Trier [2000]". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

[12] "Swan song". www.popservations.com. Retrieved 17 August 2021.

[13] "Bjork launches celluloid comeback". BBC News. 2 November 2005. Retrieved 22 December 2006. Bjork vowed never to act again after making Dancer in the Dark in 2000, despite winning a best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

[14] "Björk Uncovers Dancer Feud". TVGuide.com. October 2000. Retrieved 22 December 2006. Right now, I feel very strong about focusing on music

[15] Pytlik, Mark (29 May 2003). Bjork: Wow and Flutter. ECW Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-55022-556-3. Retrieved 11 October 2010.

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 | distributor    = Angel Films (Denmark)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark |work=[[Danish Film Database]] |access-date=12 June 2021 |url=https://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/dancer-dark}}</ref><br />[[Les films du losange]] (France)<ref name="uni">{{cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark (2000) |work=[[UniFrance]] |access-date=12 June 2021 |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/20596/dancer-in-the-dark}}</ref><br />[[Constantin Film]] (Germany)<ref name="uni" /><br />[[Istituto Luce]] (Italy)<ref name="uni" /><br />[[Sandrew Metronome]] (Sweden)<ref name="uni" /><br />FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom)<ref name="uni" /><br />[[Fine Line Features]] (United States)<ref name="uni" />
-| released       = {{Film date|df=y|2000|5|17|[[2000 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|2000|9|1|Denmark}}
+| released       = {{Film date|df=y|2000|5|17|[[2000 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]|2000|9|1|Denmark previews|2000|9|8|Scandinavia}}
 | runtime        = 140 minutes<ref name="LasagnaLena2003">{{Cite book |last1=Lasagna |first1=Roberto |last2=Lena |first2=Sandra |title=Lars von Trier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9FYAibtRr4C&pg=PA122 |date=May 2003 |access-date=15 October 2010 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-7301-543-7 |page=124}}</ref><!--Theatrical runtime: 140:16--><ref>{{cite web |title=''DANCER IN THE DARK'' (15) |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/dancer-dark-1970-0 |work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=13 July 2000 |access-date=2 January 2013}}</ref>
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-'''''Dancer in the Dark''''' is a 2000  [[Psychological fiction|psychological]] [[Art film|arthouse]] [[Musical film|musical]] [[melodrama]] film written and directed by [[Lars von Trier]]. It stars Icelandic musician [[Björk]] as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. [[Catherine Deneuve]], [[David Morse (actor)|David Morse]], [[Cara Seymour]], [[Peter Stormare]], [[Siobhan Fallon Hogan]] and [[Joel Grey]] also star. The soundtrack for the film, ''[[Selmasongs]]'', was written mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from [[Mark Bell (British musician)|Mark Bell]] and some of the lyrics were written by von Trier and [[Sjón]].
+'''''Dancer In The Dark''''' is a 2000 [[Musical film|musical]] [[Psychological fiction|psychological]] [[tragedy]]<ref>{{Cite web |title='Dancer in the Dark': Tragic and Entrancing |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/10/06/dancer-in-the-dark-tragic-and-entrancing/afa81455-ce7f-48f0-a72e-85cddac0775c/}}</ref> film written and directed by [[Lars von Trier]]. It stars Icelandic musician [[Björk]] as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. [[Catherine Deneuve]], [[David Morse (actor)|David Morse]], [[Cara Seymour]], [[Peter Stormare]], [[Siobhan Fallon Hogan]] and [[Joel Grey]] also star. The soundtrack for the film, ''[[Selmasongs]]'', was written mainly by Björk, but a number of songs featured contributions from [[Mark Bell (British musician)|Mark Bell]] and some of the lyrics were written by von Trier and [[Sjón]].
-''Dancer in the Dark'' is the third and final installment in von Trier's second trilogy "Golden Heart", following ''[[Breaking the Waves]]'' (1996) and ''[[The Idiots]]'' (1998).<ref>{{Cite web|last=EmanuelLevy|title=Dancer in the Dark (2000): Von Trier's Cannes Fest Top Prize-Winning Film Starring Bjork {{!}} Emanuel Levy|url=https://emanuellevy.com/review/dancer-in-the-dark-4/|access-date=17 August 2021|language=en-US}}</ref> It was an international [[co-production (filmmaking)|co-production]] among companies based in thirteen European and North American countries and regions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DANCER IN THE DARK (2000) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8182fa8a |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=BFI |language=en |surname=BFI}}</ref> Like the first installment, it was shot with a handheld camera inspired by [[Dogme 95]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Molly Malene Stensgaard "Dialogue with the Audience"|url=https://www.visegradfilmforum.com/2020/news/news-detail/article/molly-malene-stensgaard-a-sense-of-continuity/|access-date=17 August 2021|website=Visegrad Film Forum|language=en}}</ref>
+''Dancer in the Dark'' is the third and final installment in von Trier's second trilogy "[[Golden Heart trilogy|Golden Heart]]", following ''[[Breaking the Waves]]'' (1996) and ''[[The Idiots]]'' (1998).<ref>{{Cite web|last=EmanuelLevy|title=Dancer in the Dark (2000): Von Trier's Cannes Fest Top Prize-Winning Film Starring Bjork {{!}} Emanuel Levy|date=16 November 2010 |url=https://emanuellevy.com/review/dancer-in-the-dark-4/|access-date=17 August 2021|language=en-US}}</ref> It was an international [[co-production (filmmaking)|co-production]] among companies based in thirteen European and North American countries and regions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DANCER IN THE DARK (2000) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8182fa8a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725083916/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8182fa8a |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 July 2016 |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=BFI |language=en |surname=BFI}}</ref> Like the first installment, it was shot with a handheld camera inspired by [[Dogme 95]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Molly Malene Stensgaard "Dialogue with the Audience"|url=https://www.visegradfilmforum.com/2020/news/news-detail/article/molly-malene-stensgaard-a-sense-of-continuity/|access-date=17 August 2021|website=Visegrad Film Forum|language=en}}</ref>
-''Dancer in the Dark'' premiered at the [[2000 Cannes Film Festival]] and got awarded the [[Palme d'Or]], along with the [[Best Actress]] award for Björk.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark {{!}} film by von Trier [2000] |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dancer-in-the-Dark |access-date=17 August 2021 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> The film received generally positive reviews, with Björk's performance receiving universal acclaim and earning the singer her first [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe]] nomination for her performance, though criticism was directed at the film's plot in terms of commonality.{{Clarify|date=August 2023}}
+''Dancer in the Dark'' premiered at the [[2000 Cannes Film Festival]] and won the [[Palme d'Or]], along with the [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress|Best Actress Award]] for Björk.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark {{!}} film by von Trier [2000] |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dancer-in-the-Dark |access-date=17 August 2021 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> The film received generally positive reviews, with Björk's performance being widely praised.
-The song "[[I've Seen It All]]" performed and co-wrote by Björk, with [[Sjón]] and von Trier, were nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], but lost to "[[Things Have Changed]]" by [[Bob Dylan]] from ''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popservations.com/lost-and-found/swan-song/|title=Swan song|access-date=17 August 2021|website=www.popservations.com}}</ref>
+The song "[[I've Seen It All]]" performed and co-written by Björk, with [[Sjón]] and von Trier, was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], but lost to "[[Things Have Changed]]" by [[Bob Dylan]] from ''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popservations.com/lost-and-found/swan-song/|title=Swan song|access-date=17 August 2021|website=www.popservations.com}}</ref>
 ==Plot==
-In [[Washington (state)|Washington state]] in 1964, Selma Ježková, a [[Czechoslovakia|Czech]] immigrant, has moved to the United States with her 12-year-old son, Gene Ježek. They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, whom she nicknames Cvalda. She rents a trailer home on the property of local police officer Bill Houston and his wife, Linda. She is romantically pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff, who also works at the factory.
+In [[Washington (state)|Washington state]] in 1964, Selma Ježková, a [[Czech Americans|Czech immigrant]], has moved to the United States with her 12-year-old son, Gene Ježek. They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, whom she nicknames Cvalda. She rents a trailer home on the property of local police officer Bill Houston and his wife, Linda. She is romantically pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff, who also works at the factory.
 Selma is gradually losing her vision due to a degenerative eye condition, but still is saving money to pay for an operation that will prevent Gene from sharing her fate. She also takes part in rehearsals for a production of ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' and accompanies Kathy to the local cinema, where together they watch Hollywood musicals, as Kathy describes them to her.
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 In her day-to-day life, Selma slips into daydreams, imagining herself in a musical ("Cvalda"). Jeff and Kathy begin to realize that Selma's vision is worse than they thought, and that she has been memorizing eye charts in order to pass vision tests and keep her job. Bill reveals to Selma that Linda's excessive spending has put the couple's house in danger of [[foreclosure]] by their bank. He has contemplated suicide but cannot bring himself to carry out the act. Selma promises to keep his secret and confides in him about her advancing vision loss. Bill quietly stays without knowing that Selma still sees him and watches her hide her money in a tin.
-The next day, Selma's boss Norman believes that her eye condition is deteriorated, resulted for her to [[Resignation|resign]] and gives a last salary for her in order to give her job back when her eyes cured, which Kathy accused him of firing her. Not willing to take her job back, Jeff tries to escort her home by car, but she takes home with a train ("[[I've Seen It All]]"). She adds her last wages to the tin but discovers it to be empty. Realizing that Bill has robbed her, she goes to his house to confront him. Linda accuses Selma of trying to [[seduce]] her husband, explaining that Bill told her Selma wanted him for his money. Not wanting to reveal her knowledge of the impending foreclosure, Selma ignores Linda and confronts Bill about the theft. They fight over the money, with Bill drawing a gun only to be accidentally shot by Selma.
+The next day, Selma's boss Norman believes that her eye condition has deteriorated; he accepts her [[resignation]] and pays her final wages, but promises to re-hire her once her sight has improved. However, Kathy accuses him of firing her. Not willing to get her job back, Jeff tries to escort her home by car, but she goes home by train ("[[I've Seen It All]]"). Opening the tin to add her money it it, Selma finds it empty. Realizing that Bill has robbed her, she goes to his house to confront him. Linda accuses Selma of trying to [[seduce]] her husband, explaining that Bill told her Selma wanted him for his money. Not wanting to reveal her knowledge of the impending foreclosure, Selma ignores Linda and confronts Bill about the theft. They fight over the money, with Bill drawing a gun only to be accidentally shot by Selma.
 Bill yells for Linda to call the police, saying that Selma has tried to rob him, then begs Selma to kill him, telling her it is the only way she will ever reclaim her stolen money. Selma shoots Bill several times, but only wounds him further due to her poor vision, and finally beats him to death with a safe deposit box once the gun runs out of ammunition. She slips into a [[trance]] and imagines that Bill's corpse stands up and [[slow dance]]s with her ("Smith & Wesson"). Taking her money back, she flees the house and pays for Gene's operation in advance.
-Not knowing about the murder, Jeff takes Selma to rehearsal, where her director calls the police to have her arrested ("In the Musicals, Part 1"). In court, she is accused of being a [[Communism|Communist]] sympathizer and of pretending to be blind to exploit the American healthcare system. Although she tells as much truth about the situation as she can, she refuses to reveal Bill's secret, saying that she had promised not to. When her claim of sending all her money to her father in Czechoslovakia is proven false, she is convicted of murder and [[Capital punishment|sentenced to death]] ("In the Musicals, Part 2"). Kathy and Jeff eventually figure out what happened and get back Selma's money, using it instead to pay for a trial lawyer who can free her. Selma refuses the lawyer, opting to face execution by hanging rather than let her son go blind, but she is deeply distraught as she awaits her death ("107 Steps"). As Selma begins to become distraught, she is secured to a board. Kathy runs in to tell her that the operation was successful, and that Gene will see to his grandfather, and gives Selma her son's glasses.  Relieved, Selma sings a final song on the gallows with no musical accompaniment. The trap door opens, and she is [[Hanging|hanged]] before she can finish the last verse, whose lines are displayed as the proceedings conclude ("New World").
+Not knowing about the murder, Jeff takes Selma to rehearsal, where her director calls the police to have her arrested ("In the Musicals, Part 1"). In court, she is accused of being a [[Communism|Communist]] sympathizer and of pretending to be blind to exploit the American healthcare system. Although she tells as much truth about the situation as she can, she refuses to reveal Bill's secret, saying that she had promised not to. When her claim of sending all her money to her father in Czechoslovakia is proven false, she is convicted of murder and [[Capital punishment in Washington (state)|sentenced to death]] ("In the Musicals, Part 2"). Kathy and Jeff eventually figure out what happened and recover Selma's money, using it instead to pay for a trial lawyer who can free her. Selma refuses the lawyer, opting to face execution by [[hanging]] rather than let her son go blind, but she is deeply distraught as she awaits her death ("107 Steps"). As Selma reaches the gallows, she begins to panic and the guards strap her to a board. Kathy runs in with news that the operation has saved Gene's vision and gives his glasses to Selma. Relieved, Selma sings a final song on the gallows with no musical accompaniment, but is hanged before she can finish the last verse; the final lines are displayed as the proceedings conclude ("Next to Last Song").
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-The film's title suggests the [[Fred Astaire]]/[[Cyd Charisse]] duet "[[Dancing in the Dark (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz song)|Dancing in the Dark]]" from the 1953 film ''[[The Band Wagon]]'', which ties in with the film's musical theatre theme.
+The film's title suggests the [[Fred Astaire]]/[[Cyd Charisse]] duet "[[Dancing in the Dark (Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz song)|Dancing in the Dark]]" from the 1953 film ''[[The Band Wagon]]'', which ties in with the film's musical theatre theme.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 Actress [[Björk]], who is known primarily as a contemporary musician, had rarely acted before, and described the process of making this film as so emotionally taxing that she would not act in any film ever again<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bjork launches celluloid comeback |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4209500.stm |work=BBC News |date=2 November 2005 |access-date=22 December 2006 |quote=Bjork vowed never to act again after making Dancer in the Dark in 2000, despite winning a best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/bjoumlrk-uncovers-dancer-36395/ |title=Björk Uncovers Dancer Feud |access-date=22 December 2006 |date=October 2000 |publisher=TVGuide.com |quote=Right now, I feel very strong about focusing on music}}</ref> (although she appeared in [[Matthew Barney]]'s film installation ''[[Drawing Restraint 9]]'' in 2005, and in [[Robert Eggers]]' ''[[The Northman]]''). Trier and others have described her performance as [[feeling]] rather than acting.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pytlik |first=Mark |title=Bjork: Wow and Flutter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bill263dqDAC&pg=PT94 |access-date=11 October 2010 |date=29 May 2003 |publisher=ECW Press |isbn=978-1-55022-556-3 |page=142}}</ref> Björk has said that it is a misunderstanding that she was put off acting by this film; rather, she never wanted to act but made an exception for Lars von Trier.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bjork.com/facts/about/right.php?id%3D1574 |title=Archived copy |access-date=24 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209102351/http://www.bjork.com/facts/about/right.php?id=1574 |archive-date=9 December 2008}}</ref>
-The musical sequences were filmed simultaneously with over 100 [[digital camera]]s so that multiple angles of the performance could be captured and cut together later, thus shortening the filming schedule.
+The musical sequences were filmed simultaneously with over 100 [[digital camera]]s so that multiple angles of the performance could be captured and cut together later, thus shortening the filming schedule.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
-Björk lies down on a stack of [[birch]] logs during the "Scatterheart" sequence. In [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]], "björk" means "birch".
+Björk lies down on a stack of [[birch]] logs during the "Scatterheart" sequence. In [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]], ''björk'' means "birch".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://islex.arnastofnun.is/is/ord/5759/tungumal/SE|language=is|title=björk|work=ISLEX|access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>
 A Danish [[DSB Class MY|MY]] class [[locomotive]] and one [[SJ T43|T43]] (both owned by Swedish train operator [[TÅGAB]]) were painted in the American [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern]] scheme for the film, and not repainted afterward.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=148383&showcomments=true |title=RailPictures.Net Photo: TAG TMY-106 TAGAB TMY at Kristinehamn, Sweden by Peter Rabijns |website=www.railpictures.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tellerup |first1=Frederik |title=Lokguide - Diesellok T43 |url=https://www.jarnvag.net/lokguide/T43 |website=järnväg.net |access-date=10 May 2023}}</ref>
 ===Style===
-Much of the film has a similar look to von Trier's earlier [[Dogme 95]]-influenced films: it is filmed on low-end, hand-held [[digital camera]]s to create a documentary-style appearance. It is not a true Dogme 95 film, however, because the Dogme rules stipulate that violence, [[Diegesis#Film sound and music|non-diegetic music]], and period pieces are not permitted. Trier differentiates the musical sequences from the rest of the film by using static cameras and by brightening the colours.
+Much of the film has a similar look to von Trier's earlier [[Dogme 95]]-influenced films: it is filmed on low-end, hand-held [[digital camera]]s to create a documentary-style appearance. It is not a true Dogme 95 film, however, because the Dogme rules stipulate that violence, [[Diegesis#Film sound and music|non-diegetic music]], and period pieces are not permitted. Trier differentiates the musical sequences from the rest of the film by using static cameras and by brightening the colours.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
 ===Music===
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 ==Controversy==
-In October 2017, Björk, was one of the victims nearly familiar to [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases|Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment traits]], posted on her [[Facebook]] page that she had been sexually harassed by a "Danish film director she worked with".<ref>{{cite news |last=Nyren |first=Erin |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/bjork-sexual-harassment-danish-director-1202590429/ |title=Björk Shares Experience of Harassment By 'Danish Director:' He Created 'An Impressive Net of Illusion' |work=Variety |date=15 October 2017 |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> She commented:
+In October 2017, Björk, in the wake of dozens of [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases|sexual abuse cases]] brought against film producer [[Harvey Weinstein]], posted on her [[Facebook]] page that she had been sexually harassed by a "Danish film director she worked with".<ref>{{cite news |last=Nyren |first=Erin |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/bjork-sexual-harassment-danish-director-1202590429/ |title=Björk Shares Experience of Harassment By 'Danish Director:' He Created 'An Impressive Net of Illusion' |work=Variety |date=15 October 2017 |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> She commented:
 {{blockquote|It was extremely clear to me when I walked into the actresses profession that my humiliation and role as a lesser sexually harassed being was the norm and set in stone with the director and a staff of dozens who enabled it and encouraged it. I became aware of that it is a universal thing that a director can touch and harass his actresses at will and the institution of film allows it. When I turned the director down repeatedly he sulked and punished me and created for his team an impressive net of illusion where I was framed as the difficult one. ...
 and in my opinion he had a more fair and meaningful relationship with his actresses after my confrontation so there is hope. Let's hope this statement supports the actresses and actors all over. Let's stop this. There is a wave of change in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/bjork/posts/10155777444371460 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016011740/https://www.facebook.com/bjork/posts/10155777444371460 |author=Björk |title=i am inspired by the women everywhere who are speaking up online to tell about my experience with a danish director |publisher=Facebook |date=15 October 2017 |access-date=16 October 2017 |archive-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>}}
-The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' found evidence identifying him as [[Lars von Trier]].<ref>{{cite news |last=D'Zurilla |first=Christie |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-bjork-sexual-harassment-lars-von-1508261125-htmlstory.html |title=Björk details alleged harassment; Lars von Trier denies accusations |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 October 2017 |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> Von Trier has rejected Björk's allegation that he sexually harassed her during the making of the film ''Dancer in the Dark'', and said "That was not the case. But that we were definitely not friends, that's a fact", to Danish daily ''[[Jyllands-Posten]]'' in its online edition. [[Peter Aalbæk Jensen]], the producer of ''Dancer in the Dark'', told ''Jyllands-Posten'' that "as far as I remember we [Lars von Trier and I] were the victims. That woman was stronger than both Lars von Trier and me and our company put together. She dictated everything and was about to close a movie of 100m kroner [$16m]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/17/not-the-case-lars-von-trier-denies-sexually-harassing-bjork |title='Not the case': Lars Von Trier denies sexually harassing Björk |last=Staff and agencies |date=19 October 2017 |website=the Guardian}}</ref> After von Trier's statement, Björk explained the details about this incident:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155782628166460&id=6747251459&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10155782628166460:tl_objid.10155782628166460:throwback_story_fbid.10155782628166460&__tn__=,; |title=Björk |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref><blockquote>In the spirit of #metoo I would like to lend women around the world a hand with a more detailed description of my experience with a Danish director. It feels extremely difficult to come out with something of this nature into the public, especially when immediately ridiculed by offenders. I fully sympathise with everyone who hesitates, even for years. But I feel it is the right time especially now when it could make a change. Here comes a list of the encounters that I think count as sexual harassment:
+The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' found evidence identifying him as [[Lars von Trier]].<ref>{{cite news |last=D'Zurilla |first=Christie |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-bjork-sexual-harassment-lars-von-1508261125-htmlstory.html |title=Björk details alleged harassment; Lars von Trier denies accusations |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 October 2017 |access-date=17 October 2017}}</ref> Von Trier has rejected Björk's allegation that he sexually harassed her during the making of the film ''Dancer in the Dark'', and said "That was not the case. But that we were definitely not friends, that's a fact", to Danish daily ''[[Jyllands-Posten]]'' in its online edition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Enggaard |first=Michael |date=2017-10-16 |title=Lars von Trier: Der er intet i den sag |url=https://jyllands-posten.dk/kultur/film/ECE9953026/lars-von-trier-der-er-intet-i-den-sag/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=Jyllands-Posten |language=da}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> [[Peter Aalbæk Jensen]], the producer of ''Dancer in the Dark'', told ''Jyllands-Posten'' that "as far as I remember we [Lars von Trier and I] were the victims. That woman was stronger than both Lars von Trier and me and our company put together. She dictated everything and was about to close a movie of 100m kroner [$16m]".<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/17/not-the-case-lars-von-trier-denies-sexually-harassing-bjork |title='Not the case': Lars Von Trier denies sexually harassing Björk |last=Staff and agencies |date=19 October 2017 |website=the Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Enggaard |first=Michael |date=2017-10-15 |title=Peter Aalbæk afviser Björk-anklager om sexchikane: »Vi var ofrene« |url=https://jyllands-posten.dk/kultur/film/ECE9952454/peter-aalbaek-afviser-bjoerkanklager-om-sexchikane-vi-var-ofrene/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=Jyllands-Posten |language=da}}</ref> After von Trier's statement, Björk explained the details about this incident:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155782628166460&id=6747251459&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10155782628166460:tl_objid.10155782628166460:throwback_story_fbid.10155782628166460&__tn__=,; |title=Björk |website=www.facebook.com}}</ref><blockquote>In the spirit of [[MeToo movement|#metoo]] I would like to lend women around the world a hand with a more detailed description of my experience with a Danish director. It feels extremely difficult to come out with something of this nature into the public, especially when immediately ridiculed by offenders. I fully sympathise with everyone who hesitates, even for years. But I feel it is the right time especially now when it could make a change. Here comes a list of the encounters that I think count as sexual harassment:
 # After each take the director ran up to me and wrapped his arms around me for a long time in front of all crew or alone and stroked me sometimes for minutes against my wishes.
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 # During the whole filming process there were constant awkward paralysing unwanted whispered sexual offers from him with graphic descriptions, sometimes with his wife standing next to us.
 # While filming in Sweden, he threatened to climb from his room's balcony over to mine in the middle of the night with a clear sexual intention, while his wife was in the room next door. I escaped to my friends room. This was what finally woke me up to the severity of all this and made me stand my ground.
-# Fabricated stories in the press about me being difficult by his producer. This matches beautifully the [[Harvey Weinstein|Weinstein]] methods and bullying. I have never eaten a shirt. Not sure that is even possible.
+# Fabricated stories in the press about me being difficult by his producer. This matches beautifully the Weinstein methods and bullying. I have never eaten a shirt. Not sure that is even possible.
 # I didn't comply or agree on being sexually harassed. That was then portrayed as me being difficult. If being difficult is standing up to being treated like that, i'll own it.
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 ==Reception==
 ===Critical response===
+At the [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Dancer in the Dark'' earned positive reviews from 70% of 122 critics, with an [[weighted arithmetic mean|average rating]] of 6.8/10. The critics consensus on the website reads, "''Dancer in Dark'' can be grim, dull, and difficult to watch, but even so, it has a powerful and moving performance from Björk and is something quite new and visionary".<ref>{{cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark (2000) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dancer_in_the_dark/ |access-date=3 November 2020 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> According to [[Metacritic]], which assigned the film a weighted average score of 63/100 based on 33 critic reviews, the film received "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/dancer-in-the-dark |title=Dancer in the Dark Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref>
-[[File:Björk by deep schismic at Big Day Out 2008, Melbourne Flemington Racecourse.jpg|thumb|[[Björk]]'s performance received universal acclaim from critics and audiences whom many regarded it to be one of the finest female performances of all time, she also very praised for the movie's soundtrack. She won the [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress]] and earned a nomination for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Drama]] and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Academy Award For Best Original Song]] for [[I've Seen It All]].]]
-At the [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''Dancer in the Dark'' earned positive reviews from 69% of 121 critics, with an [[weighted arithmetic mean|average rating]] of 6.8/10. The critics consensus on the website reads, "''Dancer in Dark'' can be grim, dull, and difficult to watch, but even so, it has a powerful and moving performance from Björk and is something quite new and visionary".<ref>{{cite web |title=Dancer in the Dark (2000) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dancer_in_the_dark/ |access-date=3 November 2020 |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]]}}</ref> According to [[Metacritic]], which assigned the film a weighted average score of 63/100 based on 33 critic reviews, the film received "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/dancer-in-the-dark |title=Dancer in the Dark Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=6 March 2018}}</ref>
-On ''[[The Movie Show]]'', [[Margaret Pomeranz]] gave it five stars while [[David Stratton]] gave it a zero, a score shared only by [[Geoffrey Wright]]'s ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992).<ref>{{Cite news |first=Margeret |last=Pomeranz |title=Dancer in the Dark |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/1749/Dancer-In-The-Dark |date=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=At the Movies' Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton's best bust-ups |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/at-the-movies-margaret-pomeranz-and-david-strattons-best-bustups/story-e6frfmyi-1227060455524 |access-date=28 December 2014 |agency=News.com.au |date=16 September 2014}}</ref> Stratton later described it as his "favourite horror film".<ref>{{cite web |title=Summer Broadband Specials – Musicals |url=http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1261068.htm |website=ABC at the Movies |publisher=ABC |access-date=28 December 2014 |date=9 December 2004}}</ref> [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' dubbed ''Dancer in the Dark'' the "most shallow and crudely manipulative" film of 2000,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/15/1 |title=Dancer in the dark |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 September 2000 |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> and in 2009 he described it as "one of the worst films, one of the worst artworks and perhaps one of the worst things in the history of the world".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |title=Dancer in the Dark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2009/may/22/cannes-film-festival |work=The Guardian |date=22 May 2009 |access-date=22 May 2009 |quote=Xan Brooks leads a critics' roundtable on the highs and lows, the sublime to the ridiculous at the 2009 Cannes film festival, before sailing into the sunset. See video at 8:20.}}</ref>
+On ''[[The Movie Show]]'', [[Margaret Pomeranz]] gave it five stars while [[David Stratton]] gave it a zero, a score shared only by [[Geoffrey Wright]]'s ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992).<ref>{{Cite news |first=Margeret |last=Pomeranz |title=Dancer in the Dark |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/films/movie/1749/Dancer-In-The-Dark |date=September 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=At the Movies' Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton's best bust-ups |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/at-the-movies-margaret-pomeranz-and-david-strattons-best-bustups/story-e6frfmyi-1227060455524 |access-date=28 December 2014 |agency=News.com.au |date=16 September 2014 |archive-date=16 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016134837/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/at-the-movies-margaret-pomeranz-and-david-strattons-best-bustups/story-e6frfmyi-1227060455524 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stratton later described it as his "favourite horror film".<ref>{{cite web |title=Summer Broadband Specials – Musicals |url=http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1261068.htm |website=ABC at the Movies |publisher=ABC |access-date=28 December 2014 |date=9 December 2004}}</ref> [[Peter Bradshaw]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' dubbed ''Dancer in the Dark'' the "most shallow and crudely manipulative" film of 2000,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/15/1 |title=Dancer in the dark |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 September 2000 |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> and in 2009 he described it as "one of the worst films, one of the worst artworks and perhaps one of the worst things in the history of the world".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |title=Dancer in the Dark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2009/may/22/cannes-film-festival |work=The Guardian |date=22 May 2009 |access-date=22 May 2009 |quote=Xan Brooks leads a critics' roundtable on the highs and lows, the sublime to the ridiculous at the 2009 Cannes film festival, before sailing into the sunset. See video at 8:20.}}</ref>
-The film was praised for its stylistic innovations. [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' wrote: "It smashes down the walls of habit that surround so many movies. It returns to the wellsprings. It is a bold, reckless gesture".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=20 October 2000 |title=Dancer in the Dark movie review (2000) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dancer-in-the-dark-2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508174642/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dancer-in-the-dark-2000 |archive-date=8 May 2013 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |language=en |via=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref> Edward Guthmann from the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' wrote: "It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Edward |last=Guthmann |title='Dancer' Dares to Be Different |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/10/06/DD45326.DTL |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=26 October 2000 |access-date=22 December 2006 |quote=Singer Bjork amazing in von Trier's tragedy}}</ref> However, criticism was directed at its storyline. [[Jonathan Foreman (journalist)|Jonathan Foreman]] of the ''[[New York Post]]'' described the film as "meretricious fakery" and called it "so unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Foreman |title=Dreck Dressed As Art |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68876866.html?did=68876866&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&dids=68876866:68876866:&date=Sep+22%2C+2000&author=Jonathan+Foreman&pub=New+York+Post&desc=DRECK+DRESSED+AS+ART+-+DESPITE+2+GOOD+PERFORMANCES%2C+%27DANCER%27+IS+JUST+FAKERY+WITH+AN+ANTI-AMERICAN+DRUM+TO+BEAT |work=The New York Post |publisher=NYP Holdings, Inc. |page=47 |date=22 September 2000 |access-date=22 December 2006 |quote=Despite 2 Good Performances, 'Dancer' Is Just Fakery with an Anti-american Drum To Beat}}</ref> Fiachra Gibbons, writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', considered the film to be "the most unusual, extraordinary feel-good musical ever made".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibbons|first=Fiachra|title=Day eight: Screaming success at the scaffold|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/17/cannesfilmfestival|access-date=14 August 2022|work=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|Guardian News & Media Limited]]|date=17 May 2000}}</ref>
+The film was praised for its stylistic innovations. [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' wrote: "It smashes down the walls of habit that surround so many movies. It returns to the wellsprings. It is a bold, reckless gesture".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=20 October 2000 |title=Dancer in the Dark movie review (2000) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dancer-in-the-dark-2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508174642/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dancer-in-the-dark-2000 |archive-date=8 May 2013 |access-date=4 January 2021 |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |language=en |via=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref> Edward Guthmann from the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' wrote: "It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Edward |last=Guthmann |title='Dancer' Dares to Be Different |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/10/06/DD45326.DTL |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=26 October 2000 |access-date=22 December 2006 |quote=Singer Bjork amazing in von Trier's tragedy}}</ref> However, criticism was directed at its storyline. [[Jonathan Foreman (journalist)|Jonathan Foreman]] of the ''[[New York Post]]'' described the film as "meretricious fakery" and called it "so unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke".<ref>{{Cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Foreman |title=Dreck Dressed As Art |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68876866.html?did=68876866&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&dids=68876866:68876866:&date=Sep+22%2C+2000&author=Jonathan+Foreman&pub=New+York+Post&desc=DRECK+DRESSED+AS+ART+-+DESPITE+2+GOOD+PERFORMANCES%2C+%27DANCER%27+IS+JUST+FAKERY+WITH+AN+ANTI-AMERICAN+DRUM+TO+BEAT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930225230/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/68876866.html?did=68876866&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&dids=68876866:68876866:&date=Sep+22,+2000&author=Jonathan+Foreman&pub=New+York+Post&desc=DRECK+DRESSED+AS+ART+-+DESPITE+2+GOOD+PERFORMANCES,+%27DANCER%27+IS+JUST+FAKERY+WITH+AN+ANTI-AMERICAN+DRUM+TO+BEAT |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2007 |work=The New York Post |publisher=NYP Holdings, Inc. |page=47 |date=22 September 2000 |access-date=22 December 2006 |quote=Despite 2 Good Performances, 'Dancer' Is Just Fakery with an Anti-american Drum To Beat}}</ref> Fiachra Gibbons, writing for ''[[The Guardian]]'', considered the film to be "the most unusual, extraordinary feel-good musical ever made".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gibbons|first=Fiachra|title=Day eight: Screaming success at the scaffold|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/17/cannesfilmfestival|access-date=14 August 2022|work=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|Guardian News & Media Limited]]|date=17 May 2000}}</ref>
 In 2016, David Ehrlich ranked ''Dancer in the Dark'' as one of the best films of the 21st century, hailing Björk's performance as the "single greatest feat of film acting" since 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/best-movies-21st-century-carol-boyhood-12-years-a-slave-1201699418/ |title=The Best Movies of the 21st Century, According to IndieWire's Film Critics |author1-last=Ehrlich |author1-first=David |author2-last=Kohn |author2-first=Eric |website=IndieWire |date=25 June 2016 |access-date=11 February 2017}}</ref> Björk's performance is also ranked in the "25 Best Performances Not Nominated for an Oscar of the 21st Century" list.<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/best-performances-not-nominated-oscar-actor-actress-1201872025/ "The 25 Best Performances Not Nominated for an Oscar in the 21st Century, From Kristen Stewart to Andy Serkis"]. ''[[IndieWire]]''. 2 September 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017.</ref> [[Mia Goth]] credited the performance as one of her main influences, dubbing it "perfect" and "faultless".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zuckerman |first1=Esther |title=Mia Goth Finds a New Sense of Self |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/mia-goth-pearl-x-maxxxine-movie-interview-2022 |website=W Magazine |access-date=19 February 2023 |language=en |date=14 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fleminger Hudson |first1=Rachel |title=Mia Goth's 5 Points of Culture |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/02/15/mia-goth-film-actor-uma-thurman-charles-bukowski-lars-von-trier |website=Cultured Magazine |access-date=19 February 2023 |language=en |date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
 ===Box office===
+The film previewed on 12 screens in Denmark where it grossed 1,562,965 [[Danish krone]] ($180,223). It officially opened in Scandinavia on 8 September 2000 where it grossed a disappointing $288,723 in its opening weekend. It grossed $103,102 (kr. 0.9 million) from 49 screens in Denmark, finishing in second place behind ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]''. In Sweden, it opened in fifth place with a gross of 928,621 [[Swedish krona]] ($96,330) from 34 screens. It also opened in fifth place in Norway with a gross of 587,495 [[Norwegian krone]] ($63,858). In Finland, it came sixth with a gross of 152,598 [[Finnish markka]] ($25,433) from six screens.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=15 September 2000|page=31|title=Lars von Trier's Dancer disappoints in Scandinavia|last=Buddrus|first=Petra|url=https://www.screendaily.com/dancer-in-the-dark-disappoints-in-scandinavia/403602.article|access-date=29 April 2024}}</ref>
-It grossed $45.6&nbsp;million worldwide, including $4.2&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada.<ref name="numbers" /> It was [[List of 2001 box office number-one films in Japan|number one at the Japanese box office]] for three weeks.
+Overall, it grossed $45.6&nbsp;million worldwide, including $4.2&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada.<ref name="numbers" /> It was [[List of 2001 box office number-one films in Japan|number one at the Japanese box office]] for three weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=12|date=29 January 2001|title=International box office}}</ref>
 ===Accolades===
 ''Dancer in the Dark'' premiered at the [[2000 Cannes Film Festival]] and was awarded the [[Palme d'Or]], along with the [[Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress award]] for Björk.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5140/year/2000.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Dancer in the Dark |access-date=11 October 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120920/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5140/year/2000.html |archive-date=20 September 2012}}</ref> The song "I've Seen It All" was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]], at the performance of which Björk wore [[Swan dress of Björk|her famous swan dress]].
-''[[Sight & Sound]]'' magazine conducts a poll every ten years of the world's finest film directors to find out the Ten Greatest Films of All Time. This poll has been going since 1952, and has become the most recognised poll of its kind in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-damned-film-list-of-them-all |title=The best damned film list of them all – Roger Ebert's Journal – Roger Ebert |first=Roger |last=Ebert |website=www.rogerebert.com}}</ref> In 2012, [[Cyrus Frisch]] was one of the four directors who voted for ''Dancer in the Dark''. Frisch commented: "A superbly imaginative film that leaves conformity in shambles".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/920 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827010134/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/920 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 August 2012 |title=Cyrus Frisch – BFI |website=explore.bfi.org.uk}}</ref> Director Oliver Schmitz also lauded the work as "relentless, claustrophobic, the best movie about capital punishment as far as I'm concerned".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1098 |title=Oliver Schmitz {{!}} BFI|website=www.bfi.org.uk|access-date=17 May 2019}}</ref>
+''[[Sight & Sound]]'' magazine conducts a poll every ten years of the world's finest film directors to find out the Ten Greatest Films of All Time. This poll has been going since 1952, and has become the most recognised poll of its kind in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-best-damned-film-list-of-them-all |title=The best damned film list of them all – Roger Ebert's Journal – Roger Ebert |first=Roger |last=Ebert |website=www.rogerebert.com}}</ref> In 2012, [[Cyrus Frisch]] was one of the four directors who voted for ''Dancer in the Dark''. Frisch commented: "A superbly imaginative film that leaves conformity in shambles".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/920 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827010134/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/920 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 August 2012 |title=Cyrus Frisch – BFI |website=explore.bfi.org.uk}}</ref> Director Oliver Schmitz also lauded the work as "relentless, claustrophobic, the best movie about capital punishment as far as I'm concerned".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1098 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205005114/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people//sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1098 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 February 2016 |title=Oliver Schmitz {{!}} BFI|website=www.bfi.org.uk|access-date=17 May 2019}}</ref>
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Filmography Awards and nominations
Feature films	The Element of Crime (1984) Epidemic (1987) Europa (1991) Breaking the Waves (1996) The Idiots (1998) Dancer in the Dark (2000) Dogville (2003) The Five Obstructions (2003) Manderlay (2005) The Boss of It All (2006) Antichrist (2009) Melancholia (2011) Nymphomaniac (2013) The House That Jack Built (2018)
Television	Medea (1988) The Kingdom (1994–2022)
Short films	The Orchid Gardener (1977) Images of Liberation (1982) "Occupations" in To Each His Own Cinema (2007) Dimension (2010)
Related	Dear Wendy (2005, screenplay) Dogme 95 Europa trilogy Golden Heart trilogy Bibliography Zentropa
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