![]() ![]() Bill steals Selma’s savings, and when Selma confronts him, an ensuing scuffle results in Bill’s inadvertent death. Selma in turn confides that she is going blind and saving money for her son’s operation. Bill confides in Selma that he has burned through his inheritance due to his wife’s ( Cara Seymour) spending, but he is too cowardly to tell his wife the truth. ![]() She daydreams constantly, turning her life into a musical production in her head – and onscreen.Īll of Selma’s hard work is undone by her friendship with her landlord, Bill ( David Morse), the town sheriff who came into a small fortune through inheritance. The only escape Selma allows herself is into the world of musicals, both on-screen and by performing in a local production of The Sound of Music. She takes on extra shifts at the factory and makes handmade cards to sell, avoiding most other interactions and rebuffs the advances of Jeff ( Peter Stormare), a man hopelessly infatuated with Selma. Selma saves every extra penny she has to afford an operation for her son Gene, so he won’t suffer the same fate, but also refuses to tell Gene or anyone else, claiming she is sending the money to her father in Czechoslovakia. She hides her condition from everyone but her close friend Kathy ( Catherine Deneuve), who Selma calls Cvalda. Selma suffers from a degenerative eye condition that will eventually leave her blind. Set in Washington state in 1964, Dancer in the Dark is the tragedy of Selma Jezkova (Björk), a Czechoslovakian immigrant working in a factory. Ultimately, “I’ve Seen it All” lost to Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed” from Wonder Boys, but Björk’s swan dress and Dancer in the Dark have remained in the cultural memory ever since. His abrasive scripts and experimental style made him loved and loathed alike by cinephiles, but generally unknown in the mainstream. Prior to Dancer in the Dark, he was best known for his involvement with Dogme 95, a film movement that eschewed normal filmmaking conventions by utilizing only hand-held cameras, diegetic sound, filming only on location, along with seven other restrictions. She attended the Academy Awards to perform her nominated song “I’ve Seen it All,” from her 2000 film Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, another Scandinavian outsider from the Hollywood mainstream. Decked out in a swan dress designed by her friend Marjan Pejoski, with a matching egg purse, her outfit was as iconoclastic as the Icelandic singer. On March 25, 2001, Björk walked onto the Oscar red carpet and into fashion history.
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