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Dancer in the Dark

June 2024

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    ‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths

    As Julia Louis-Dreyfus tackles the death of her on-screen daughter in recent fantastical drama Tuesday, Guardian writers look back at the death scenes that ruined them

April 2015

  • Lars von Trier

    Lars von Trier: ‘I’ve started drinking again, so I can work’

    After his Nazi jokes saw him ejected from Cannes in 2011, Lars von Trier took a vow of silence. In one of the first interviews he’s given since then, Lucy Cheung met him at the Zentropa studio in Denmark to talk about sex, alcoholism and his reaction to the Copenhagen shootings

October 2014

  • BABADOOK

    The Babadook: 'I wanted to talk about the need to face darkness in ourselves'

    It’s been hailed as the horror movie of the year, the story of a ghoulish pop-up book. But Jennifer Kent’s directorial debut is more than just jumps and scares

February 2001

  • Von Trier seeks Kidman for Dancer follow-up

    The Danish director of the controversial Dancer in the Dark is hoping to sign Nicole Kidman for his next film, a psychological drama which will be filmed according to Dogme tenets

October 2000

  • The best bicycle scene: Dancer In The Dark

  • The best candy scene: Dancer In The Dark

September 2000

  • Money back guarantee for Dancer in the Dark

    Host of bad reviews for Dancer in the Dark prompts distributor to offer a refund to punters who watch the film and are less than impressed when it goes on wide release on September 29

  • The best amateur dramatics scene: Dancer In The Dark

    In a dreary rehearsal room, Selma (Björk) and Kathy (Catherine Deneuve) run through an amateur production of The Sound of Music. Selma enthusiastically launches into song as an upbeat piano accompaniment strikes up.

  • Dancer in the dark

    Peter Bradshaw: [It] has to be the most sensationally silly film of the year - as well as the most shallow and crudely manipulative

May 2000

  • Björk will not make another film

    Hours after being crowned Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut movie role in Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, Björk has announced that she is to retire from the screen and return to her musical career.

  • Review: Dancer in the dark

    Perhaps the most sensational premiere at Cannes - certainly the most startling - was yesterday's showing of Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, a film looked forward to here with such wild enthusiasm that there were ill-tempered scuffles outside the press screening and gatecrashers evicted from the auditorium to jeers and whistles.

  • Björk 'eats blouse' in movie protest

    Björk has vowed to never again make a movie after repeatedly rowing with director Lars Von Trier on the set of her debut flick Dancer in the Dark

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