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1 In this paper, I will be talking about the film Dancer in the Dark. This film stars Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare and Cara Seymour. It was directed and written by Lars von Trier. This film was distributed by Fine Line Features and it was released in the US in cinemas on September 15, 2000. The genre of this film is both drama and musical. 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