Dancer in the Dark

Lars Von Trier continues to make films that shouldn't really work, but are nevertheless amazingly powerful. At once a musical and a meditation upon musicals...

Dancer in the Dark is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema--to heroines and villains, noble sacrifices and dastardly betrayals.

Von Trier and Björk have created a melodramatic masterpiece, a musical which can be loved even by people who hate musicals.

...director Lars von Trier have managed to defibrillate the moribund movie musical; bursting into song again seems like a viable means of expression.

...is a crock -- a very pretty, deftly executed crock.