FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Dancer in the Dark
Scores
- IMDb7.9/10as of 2026-07-11
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer70%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic63/100as of 2025-08-30
What it is
Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 psychological tragedy musical film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who has a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star.
At a glance
- Genres
- Music / Drama
- Original language
- English
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