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Article: Von Trier's 'Dancer' is alive with the sound of misery.(Scene)
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- The Boston Herald
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- October 6, 2000
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"Dancer in the Dark."
Rated R. At the Harvard Square, Embassy and Coolidge Corner theaters.
2 1/2 stars (out of four)
"Dancer in the Dark," Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier's Palme d'Or-winning, feel-bad musical, is polarizing audiences. It's one of those marvelously divisive, love-it-or-hate-it films, although the truth falls somewhere in between.
In keeping with Dogma 95, an increasingly pointless filmmaking doctrine that should now be called "The Blair Witch Aesthetic," von Trier has shot this wide-screen, washed-out-looking film using existing light with shaky, digital camcorders (bring your own Dramamine). It's a movie musical ...