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Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals...just for a short moment. All happiness life is not able to give her she finds there...
Het is 1964. De Oost-Europese Selma (Björk) emigreert met haar zoon Gene naar Amerika. Ze werkt dag en nacht in de fabriek voor het bestaan van haar zoon. Selma ziet slecht en heeft een erfelijke ziekte waarbij ze uiteindelijk blind zal worden. Gene heeft deze ziekte ook. Selma spaart haar geld om een toekomstige oogoperatie voor Gene te betalen. Desondanks heeft Selma genoeg levensenergie. Elke avond repeteert ze haar rol 'Maria' voor de musical 'Sound of Music' in een theater. Hoewel ze niet goed kan zien, gaat ze ook graag naar de film. Vriendin Kathy gaat dan vaak mee om Selma te vertellen wat er op het scher...
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m te zien is. In de glamourwereld van films en theater kan Selma haar eigen leven even vergeten en voor een moment gelukkig zijn.
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The final installment in Lars von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy (which includes BREAKING THE WAVES and THE IDIOTS), DANCER IN THE DARK takes the director's original blend of heightened pseudorealism, fabricated melodrama, and the priciples of the Dogme 95 genre to a dangerously intense level. The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working in a factory, as well as performing other odd jobs, in order to save up enough money to pay for an operation that will cure Gene of the s...
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ame disease. To pass the time, Selma fantasizes that her own life is a musical, one in which her friends join her in sweeping song-and-dance routines. After her neighbor Bill (David Morse) discovers Selma's hidden savings and steals them from her, she is forced to perform an act of salvation that will condemn her forever. As the innocent Selma, Björk is one of the most fragile and heartbreaking presences the screen has ever seen. Her unbearably moving performance is enough to keep the viewer mesmerized throughout, even amid the story gaps and inconsistencies. Featuring compassionate supporting turns by Catherine Deneuve and Peter Stormare, DANCER IN THE DARK is an unrelenting gut punch that will have sympathetic audiences quivering with uncontrollable emotion.
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Never exactly the finest hour of the Oscars, the Best Original Song category of the Academy Awards this year has been something of a fiasco. First it was nominations with only two tracks -- "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" and "Real In Rio" from the animated film "Rio" -- making the cut. Then, at the start of this week, Deadline broke the news that neither song would be performed as part of the Oscar telecast, seemingly in the ever-vain hope of keeping the running time of the ceremony under three hours, despite protestations from those behind the two films, and many others. The category has always been a somewhat extraneous side-bar, but at its best (think Björk for " Dancer in the Dark ," Robin Williams leading high-kicking mounties in a rendition of "Blame Canada," or Glen Hansard and Marketa Inglova performing, and winning, for "Falling Slowly" from " Once ."), it can provide some of the biggest.
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