Monday | March 29, 2004 7:00 pm

Dancer in the Dark

Screening on Film

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse.
Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/US/UK/ France/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Norway, 2000, 35mm, color, 140 min.

Selma, the third of von Trier’s “good women,” is a factory worker with deteriorating eyesight struggling to earn enough money to pay for an eye operation for her son. After a tragic turn of events, her fate is irrevocably altered. Recalling the Hollywood musicals of her youth, Selma drifts in and out of a fantasy world punctuated by alternately joyous and melancholy musical pieces (including a courtroom cameo by Broadway legend Joel Grey). After the exhaustive production, Icelandic songstress Björk vowed never to act on film again.