Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Released October 6th in the US.

Filmed in Sweden, Denmark, and Washington.

The story: It is 1964 in a small Washington town.

Selma is a sweet, naive Czechoslovakian immigrant, who works in a factory to make ends meet.

She also has a great love for musicals.

She cares for her preteen son Gene and the two live in a rental, owned by their neighbors' policeman Bill and his wife Linda.

Selma has a condition that is causing her eyesight to slowly give in, but she continues on doing what she must.

She has been saving every little bit of money to get Gene an operation so that he will not experience the same loss of sight as her.

Selma and policeman Bill have become good friends. 

While talking with each other one evening, Bill explains he will soon lose his house, due to an inheritance that he had running out.

Selma explains that she has been saving money to give Gene the eye operation.

In a desperate attempt to keep his house and not lose Linda, Bill schemes to take Selma's savings which, of course, doesn't end well.

Stars Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Stormare, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Joel Grey, Vladica Kostic, Jean-Marc Barr, Vincent Paterson, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Udo Kier, Reathel Bean

Directed by (& story partly written) Lars von Trier

Rated R
DRAMA/MUSICAL