At the time of its release there were two very important events. The first was actually at the time it was released and that was the Sydney Olympic Games. The other event happened a bit later on in the month of September, the twenty-eighth to be exact. On this day in 2000 the former prime minister of Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, past away. Some films that were released within the time period of the Cannes film festival were Traffic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Harry Potter.

This film was received very differently by everyone. Robert Ebert gave it 3 ½ stars out of 4 and said, "Dancer in the Dark is a brave throwback to the fundamentals of the cinema--to heroines and villains, noble sacrifices and dastardly betrayals. The relatively crude visual look underlines the movie's abandonment of slick modernism.” Another spectator, Jonathan Rose

in movies there are several cameras placed throughout the set and through editing all of the cameras cam be used, making the audience see from all angles of the shot. Well in this film, in each scene, we usually only saw one angle. We saw either her front or her back. On the rare occasion that we saw all different point of views, it was probably when the camera person was moving around. You can tell that they were walking because it isn't a steady shot. Throughout the film we see a lot of off screen sound, as well as non diegetic sound. Some really good examples of off screen sound occur just before one of the musical sequences.

that’s probably why many people didn’t like it very much. But for those who are able to think outside the box, this is a film to see.

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