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Summary: A senseless waste of 141 minutes!
Review: It starts like a boring and uneventful home movie. Then it breaks into a musical for no apparent reason. And just when you think it can't seem any more amateurish, her neighbor steals her savings to buy his spoiled wife a new couch? This is a great example of how "different" has inadvertantly become equated with "good". Kevin Smith is different and good. Films like Memento are different and good. This is different and a waste of time.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: I havn't read any critical reviews,or synopsis of any kind. So I watched this movie cold, based primarily on the fact that I love her music. It was outstanding. It seem to have been derived directly from her personality, and her philosophy of music. I can't get over the small lessons of life that our present. The strength of individuality her character displayed, which of course mirrors her own.(It's extremely believable because of this.) The supporting also clearly lives up to their role.If you enjoy her you will love this movie, if you don't know her and a friends philosophy you trust raves prepare yourself for a tragic but exceptional movie.
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Summary: You have got to be kidding
Review: Boring, totally unconvincing, and badly acted with the worst ending since Al Pacino fell out of his chair in Godfather 3.
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Summary: Illusion and Reality
Review: An absolutely excellent performance by Bjork, you're not sure if she's being herself or really acting. The score is haunting and playful, the messages are profound and heartwrenching. The cinematography is home-video style to portray the realness of life, but the pictures and colors become surreal when a song and dance are performed. One cannot help but feel every emotion possible and ask every question about life and love: why we have children, why we choose to live, how we love. What will one sacrifice for another? What are we trying to preserve? What is real in this life? Do we create our own reality? Is life really bad, or is it just a beautiful song we dance to? This film is powerful and direct, yet soothing and subtle. As dark and sad as it may seem, there tends to be the sense of hope and love that prevails--as it is in life.
"This is only the last song, if we let it be."
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Summary: Dark Dancer
Review: Björk is powerful in Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. It's very clear why she says she'll never act again. As she became her role - a very disturbing role - I can understand how she sufferred for her art. Dancer is an excellent film about a mother's love for her son. As Selma goes slowly goes blind - she uses the last days of sight to save enough to get her son an operation to avoid the same fate. Although the music is beautiful and haunting - it adds to the misery of the characters. This is a difficult and disturbing film to watch, but it is extraordinary nonetheless. The DVD edition has a beautiful image and excellent sound. It could have only been better with a commentary that included Björk.
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Summary: Speechless
Review: This masterpiece will never be matched in terms of drawing the audience in to the main character's world. It achieves this in such a subtle way. Almost as if the audience was watching a home video, this movie feels real. The dance scenes are done "professionally" or in modern cinema style, saparating them from the reality. Splendid use of cinematography, coupled with a very intreaguing plot, play with the audience's emotions. Anyone can tell you that the ending is tragic... it will not matter. You will be left speechless. You will feel like turning this film off in the begining, and write it off as boring and almost laborious to watch. The first half hour feels like a full hour. By the closing credits, you will wish the movie could continue...
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Summary: Oh COME NOW
Review: Please,,,as artful as it is this film is terribly acted, and even if the dialogue was delivered by ole Sir Anthony Hopkins, my gosh what trivial words to speak. A stiff little film, badly acted with bouncy tunes, kinda like a MTV video, fun to watch and choreographed kind of cool. The policewoman who assists Selma at the end is actually quite hysterical (so terrible an actress, so phoney a character) as she tries to comfort Selma as she goes to the gallows. Do they still have the hangman's noose??? Well, I loved Breaking the Waves..I love films that have some meat on their bones..but this one is bare..BARREN of dialogue, content..well I guess that would just about blow any movie. A flop of a film. Artsy or NOT! Oh the wonderful tunes in the film...with words like "you did what you could do..you did what you could do said about 50 times...hmmmm...well what do you know about that...duh!! And you'll love Joel Grey's dance tune...Cabaret, this isn't. A BIG FLOP.....!
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Summary: This isn't quality AT ALL!!! ON ANY LEVEL
Review: I loved Breaking the Waves..I love Bjork;Catherine Deneuve...sorry if my spelling is incorrect!..However, this film is stiffly acted, BADLY acted actually. Because the dialogue is so simplistic/limited there is no REAL character development. I found the whole film to be ludicrous. A real shame as it had such potential to be both innovative and moving; just as Breaking the Waves was. Incidentially, Catherine Deneuve looks absolutely leaden and foolish in the "dancing" scenes when the film moves into a musical...reminding me of a music video...number. I am thoroughly disappointed. I am shocked at so many positive reviews. The music incidentally was also ridiculous. The lyrics are innane, the music barely tolerable. Less talent exhibited here than in a student film at a third rate art school.
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Summary: Extraordinary Cinema
Review: "Dancer in the Dark" is one of the rarest of entities - a cinematic masterpiece that deserves comparison to the greatest films ever made "Metropolis," "Citizen Kane," "2001: A Space Odyssey" to name a select few - yet remains a singularly, incomparably unique work of art. Like "The Third Man" it is a film in which everything unexpectedly comes together - a brilliant directorial vision, beautifully haunting music, and a superlative ensemble cast - to create an indelible cinematic experience that is as shattering as anything ever committed to film. At the heart of this film is the magnificent performance - both acting and musical - of Bjork who is absolutely natural and affecting. I won't attempt to describe the plot, which may seem farfetched when read on paper (or on the screen). But no matter how implausible the series of events may seem, ultimately, each scene is convincingly played. In the very best sense this film is operatic - filled with primal passions, larger than life, profoundly ethical, and even sublime. But it is a film that manages to transcend any one genre, becoming something never before seen, yet universal.
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Summary: One of the best dramas ever!
Review: This definitely is the best drama I can remember! It tells the story of Selma (Bjork), an immigrant who works in a factory, even after losing her sight, to save money for an operation to prevent the same fate befalling her son. When her supposed friend steals that money to prevent his wife discovering he is in finacial ruins, Selma demands he return it and tell his wife the truth. He refuses, and she does what is necessary to help her son's future. Interspersed is the wonderful score, composed by Bjork, which gives her character further depth. This is one of only a handful of films which brought me to tears (The Color Purple being another). It is a must see!
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