Dancer In The Dark (2000 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)

Awesome Movie Year

The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2000 features the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark. Written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse and Peter Stormare, Dancer in the Dark also won the Best Actress award at Cannes for Björk’s lead performance.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dancer-in-the-dark-2000), Edward Guthmann in the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Dancer-Dares-to-Be-Different-Singer-Bjork-3303305.php), and Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/sep/15/1).

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