Review of Dancer in the Dark (2000) by Anne G — 10 Jan 2016
Dancer In The Dark is a seriously weird film. Starting off with a lot of promise, with its raw, documentary-like feel and sensitive performance from Björk, the movie quickly shows it true colours, literally and figuratively, and what follows is 2+ hours of crushing tedium, bland dialogue and maudlin monotony.
It appears that it's only way to move its audience is to be as unashamedly downtrodden and bleak as possible, with no space for levity or light relief, and as a result is simply depressingly. Several parts are entirely predicated on characters being curiously incapable of providing basic explanations, and often logic and common sense are cast aside completely.
I liked very few parts of it, was bored by most, and outright hated others. I will commend it on being unique however, in that I've never previously witnessed spontaneous musical numbers popping up in a film about a soft-spoken Czechoslovakian immigrant with a heredity eye condition.
There's a first time for everything I guess.
This review of Dancer in the Dark (2000) was written by Anne G on 10 January 2016.
Dancer in the Dark has generally received very positive reviews.
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