DANCER IN THE DARK — CANNES 2000

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Danish writer/director Lars von Trier completes his Gold Heart trilogy (behind "Breaking the Waves" and "The Idiots") with a tragic melodrama thinly disguised as a musical.

Forget that Dancer in the Dark garnered the coveted Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Best Film, and provided Icelandic rock singer/cum actress Bjork the prize for Best Actress.

It’s a movie that audiences find at turns to be simultaneously boring and exasperating, while at the same time, paradoxically original and emotionally wrenching.

By setting the story in a 1962 Washington state that never existed, von Trier casts a multi-national shadow of social satire over a thought provoking film that pushes cinema off the edge again and again.

Rated R. 141 mins.