Dancer in the dark

[cereal killer]

well i just got through watching this movie in my film class and i gotta say i liked it. It had an interesting plot and idea behind it. My only problem with this movie is that I think Lars Von Trier used the handy cam a little to much, at times i found it appropriate for the situation but at others i just found it distracting. What do you think?

[The Postmaster General]

i liked this movie alot!

the handy cam thing was appropriate to me.

if you noticed, they used handy cam when there weren't musical numbers, but during the numbers, everything was well shot.

i think this was to emphasize that her world was unsteady and chaotic, but when she imagined the movies, and the singing, and dancing.... it was perfect.

[cereal killer]

I agree with you the musical numbers where extremly well shot and your intrepretation is perfect but still I thought that it was a little distracting at times

[The Postmaster General]

i agree.

are u familiar with Dogme95? it's a filmmaker's collective that Lars Von Trier is part of, and I think is a key member, maybe one of the founders.

the film follows some rules to make the film appear more avant garde. i'm not too into rules, but here is a link to theirs.

http://www.tvropa.com/tvropa1.2/film/dogme95/menu/menuset.htm

I don't know if Dancer is considered a Dogme95 film, or not. Do you remember seeing the logo or anything?

[cereal killer]

no i'm pretty sure that it was before he started to work on dogma95 style films.

[JCR]

I didn't like this movie. The music was great, but I just thought the plot was cliched and just tried far too hard to get emotions out of us. Also this may be a small pedantic complaint but the fact the film was set in the usa, but was clearly filmed in some northern european country annoyed me a lot- they didn't exactly go to stanley kubrick levels to hide what country they're in. dogma95 was around when DITD was made, Von trier had made a dogma film- the idiots- before dancer, but I assume dancers fantasy music scenes ruled it out of being a dogma film.

Dancers distributers filmfour were apparently disappointed with it's box office, and this doesn't suprise me. Von Triers weakest film, IMO.:eek:

[jlovborg]

Originally posted by JCR
I didn't like this movie. The music was great, but I just thought the plot was cliched and just tried far too hard to get emotions out of us. Also this may be a small pedantic complaint but the fact the film was set in the usa, but was clearly filmed in some northern european country annoyed me a lot- they didn't exactly go to stanley kubrick levels to hide what country they're in. dogma95 was around when DITD was made, Von trier had made a dogma film- the idiots- before dancer, but I assume dancers fantasy music scenes ruled it out of being a dogma film.

Dancers distributers filmfour were apparently disappointed with it's box office, and this doesn't suprise me. Von Triers weakest film, IMO.:eek:

I didn't like DITD at all.

It was filmed in Denmark and Sweden. The reason for this was von Trier's fear of flying, he didn't want to fly to America. But don't you think that the sceneries in the northern states of the US look a lot like those in Northern Europe? In which state was is set? And you're right, DITD is not a dogma film.

[cereal killer]

I think it was Washington in the year 1964.

[The Postmaster General]

did you all here what joel coen said about ditd?

spoilers....


he said that he didn't like it and the only good part was when she killed that guy.

[freakandgeek]

i just finished watching this movie and i can't believe i waited this long. it was sooo good. i think i might buy it tomorrow

spoilers

i had no idea what the movie was about, i just knew that she went blind in it. well, when david morse was standing at her door, watching her get the money, i was like 'nooooooooooo'...it was so good. i got so into it. and when he pointed the gun at her, and his wife thought she was trying to kill him, i was like 'nooooooooooo'....GREAT MOVIE....

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i recomend it:)

[BadCoverVersion]

I personally thought it was superb. Bjork was utterly stunning and the music was just excellent...It's definitely one of the most gut-wrenchingly sad films I've ever encountered...and I'm a fan of the grim stuff, believe you me.

I can see your point about the location...but I'm fairly certain that the USA isn't all bright lights, big City luv. It wasn't something I noticed at the time...but I might just have another look this evening, (If I'm in the mood for sobbing like a bitch with a skinned knee and shit...;))

9/10

[flowrchild]

This movie was excellent. I am not a fan of Bjork's music but I thought her performance in this movie was nothing short of spellbinding. My heart broke for her the entire movie.

The shaky camera does tend to bother a lot of people, but it didn't irritate me at all for some reason. Probably because I really enjoyed the movie so I wasn't paying attention to anything besides the story.

I recommend this movie for anyone in the mood to be depressed and traumatized for a few hours! (in a good way)

9/10

[meltingman]

A wonderful film indeed, and a very original work. My only problem with it was that I am frustrated that Bjork is not my wife (I love her to death). Oh well, maybe in another life.