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Dancer in the Dark

January 01, 1970

This article is about the Danish musical drama film. For other uses, see Dancer in the Dark (disambiguation).

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
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLars von Trier
Written byLars von Trier
Produced byVibeke Windeløv
Starring
CinematographyRobby Müller
Edited by
  • François Gédigier
  • Molly Marlene Stensgård
Music byBjörk
Production
companies
Distributed byAngel Films (Denmark)[1]
Les films du losange (France)[2]
Constantin Film (Germany)[2]
Istituto Luce (Italy)[2]
Sandrew Metronome (Sweden)[2]
FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom)[2]
Fine Line Features (United States)[2]
Release dates
  • 17 May 2000 (2000-05-17) (Cannes)
  • 1 September 2000 (2000-09-01) (Denmark)
Running time
140 minutes[3][4]
Countries
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUSD$12.5 million[5]
(120 million kr)
Box office$45.6 million[5][6]
(416 million kr)

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 edit

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 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 reaches the gallows, she begins to panic, attempting to resist her impending hanging and leading the guards to strap her to a board. Kathy runs in to tell her that the operation was successful, and that Gene will see his grandchildren, 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 hanged before she can finish the last verse, whose lines are displayed as the proceedings conclude ("New World").

Cast edit

Production edit

 
The Great Northern TMY locomotive

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 edit

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 edit

Main article: Selmasongs

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]

Controversy edit

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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 edit

Critical response edit

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 edit

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.[45]

Accolades edit

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.[46] 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.[47] 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".[48] Director Oliver Schmitz also lauded the work as "relentless, claustrophobic, the best movie about capital punishment as far as I'm concerned".[49]

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 [50]
Bodil Awards 2001 Best Danish Film Lars von Trier Nominated [51]
Best Actress Björk Won [52]
Cannes Film Festival May 2000 Palme d'Or Lars von Trier Won [46]
Best Actress Björk Won
César Awards 24 February 2001 Best Foreign Film Lars von Trier Nominated [53]
European Film Awards 2 December 2000 Best Film Lars von Trier Won [54]
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 [55]
Golden Globes 21 January 2001 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Björk Nominated [56]
Best Original Song "I've Seen It All" – Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjón Nominated
Goya Awards 2001 Best European Film Lars von Trier Won [57]

See also edit

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Bibliography edit

  • 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.

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January 01, 1970
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This article is about the Danish musical drama film For other uses see Dancer in the Dark disambiguation Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy 7 film written and directed by Lars von Trier It stars Icelandic musician Bjork 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 Bjork but a number of songs featured contributions from Mark Bell and some of the lyrics were written by von Trier and Sjon Dancer In The DarkTheatrical release posterDirected byLars von TrierWritten byLars von TrierProduced byVibeke WindelovStarringBjork Catherine Deneuve David Morse Peter Stormare Joel GreyCinematographyRobby MullerEdited byFrancois Gedigier Molly Marlene StensgardMusic byBjorkProductioncompaniesZentropa Entertainments Canal FilmFour France 3 CinemaDistributed byAngel Films Denmark 1 Les films du losange France 2 Constantin Film Germany 2 Istituto Luce Italy 2 Sandrew Metronome Sweden 2 FilmFour Distributors United Kingdom 2 Fine Line Features United States 2 Release dates17 May 2000 2000 05 17 Cannes 1 September 2000 2000 09 01 Denmark Running time140 minutes 3 4 CountriesDenmark France Germany Italy Sweden United Kingdom United StatesLanguageEnglishBudgetUSD 12 5 million 5 120 million kr Box office 45 6 million 5 6 416 million kr 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 Bjork 11 The film received generally positive reviews with Bjork s performance being widely praised The song I ve Seen It All performed and co written by Bjork with Sjon 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 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Style 3 2 Music 4 Controversy 5 Reception 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Box office 5 3 Accolades 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Bibliography 8 External linksPlot editIn Washington state in 1964 Selma Jezkova a Czech immigrant has moved to the United States with her 12 year old son Gene Jezek 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 amp 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 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 reaches the gallows she begins to panic attempting to resist her impending hanging and leading the guards to strap her to a board Kathy runs in to tell her that the operation was successful and that Gene will see his grandchildren 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 hanged before she can finish the last verse whose lines are displayed as the proceedings conclude New World Cast editBjork as Selma Jezkova Catherine Deneuve as Kathy Cvalda David Morse as Bill Houston Peter Stormare as Jeff Joel Grey as Oldrich Novy Cara Seymour as Linda Houston Vladica Kostic as Gene Jezek Jean Marc Barr as Norman Vincent Paterson as Samuel Siobhan Fallon as Brenda Zeljko Ivanek as District attorney Udo Kier as Dr Pokorny 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 Skarsgard as the doctorProduction edit nbsp The Great Northern TMY locomotive 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 Bjork 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 Bjork 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 Bjork lies down on a stack of birch logs during the Scatterheart sequence In Icelandic and Swedish bjork means birch 17 A Danish MY class locomotive and one T43 both owned by Swedish train operator TAGAB were painted in the American Great Northern scheme for the film and not repainted afterward 18 19 Style edit 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 edit Main article Selmasongs Selmasongs Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Dancer in the Dark is the first soundtrack album by Icelandic musician Bjork 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 Bjork starred as Selma Jezkova 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 Bjork 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 Bjork Singers Bjork 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 Bjork Lars von Trier and Sjon Non original music Richard Rodgers from The Sound of Music Non original lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II from The Sound of Music Choreographer Vincent PatersonControversy editIn October 2017 Bjork 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 Bjork 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 Aalbaek 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 Bjork 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 HopeLet s break this curse WarmthBjorkBjork s manager Derek Birkett has also accused von Trier s actions in the past 28 I have worked with Bjork 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 Bjork 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 Bjork and myself demanded that he stop behaving this way Bjork completed the film out of respect for the cast and everyone involved I feel compelled to publicly speak out in fierce support of Bjork 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 editCritical response edit 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 Bjork 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 Bjork s performance as the single greatest feat of film acting since 2000 41 Bjork 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 edit 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 45 Accolades edit 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 Bjork 46 The song I ve Seen It All was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the performance of which Bjork wore her famous swan dress Sight amp 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 47 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 48 Director Oliver Schmitz also lauded the work as relentless claustrophobic the best movie about capital punishment as far as I m concerned 49 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items December 2018 Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient s Result Ref s Academy Awards 25 March 2001 Best Original Song I ve Seen It All Bjork Lars von Trier Sjon Nominated 50 Bodil Awards 2001 Best Danish Film Lars von Trier Nominated 51 Best Actress Bjork Won 52 Cannes Film Festival May 2000 Palme d Or Lars von Trier Won 46 Best Actress Bjork Won Cesar Awards 24 February 2001 Best Foreign Film Lars von Trier Nominated 53 European Film Awards 2 December 2000 Best Film Lars von Trier Won 54 Best Actress Bjork Won Best Director People s Choice Lars von Trier Won Best Actress People s Choice Bjork Won Independent Spirit Awards March 2001 Best Foreign Film Lars von Trier Won 55 Golden Globes 21 January 2001 Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama Bjork Nominated 56 Best Original Song I ve Seen It All Bjork Lars von Trier Sjon Nominated Goya Awards 2001 Best European Film Lars von Trier Won 57 See also editThe opera Selma Jezkova by Poul Ruders which is based on the film 58 References edit Dancer in the Dark Danish Film 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