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Dancer in the dark5/2/2023 For this reason, she works hard in a factory, in the company of her friend Kathy (Catherine Deneuve), whom Selma nicknames “Cvalda”. Selma suffers from a degenerative hereditary disease that causes rapid progressive blindness. But the protagonism of the entire film is for Björk, who plays the character of Selma Jezkova, a Czech immigrant who arrives in the United States in 1964, in the company of her son Gene (Vladica Kostic). The name and prestige of von Trier at that time, made actors like Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier and Joel Gray star in the film. This fascinating musical drama has a very special leading role: the Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk. This central objective is masterfully discerned in the film Dancer In The Dark (2000): Lars von Trier used a digital format, very little props and mute colors to focus specifically on the performances and the plot. He is one of the central figures of the Dogma 95, which was an avantgarde film movement, announced on March 13, 1995. The goal of Dogma 95 was to “purify cinema”, rejecting the expensive special effects, modifications and post-production editions, this filmmakers seek to get rid of all falsehood contained in Hollywood films, in order to project something as close as possible to reality: something real and raw. Provocative from his first works, Von Trier started to make his own way into his dark and legendary career. His degree project had been presented at the two biggest festivals in Germany (they also screened it at the 34th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival in the ‘Panorama’ section) and the critics said that it was a very well executed product that explored a morbid theme, placed in the perspective of an unusual character. Lars von Trier was 27 years old and had his place in the film circuit. He also studied film theory at the University of Copenhagen and he made the half-length film Image of Relief (1982), which won the award for best film at the 83rd Munich Film Festival and became the first University production made in Denmark that reached theaters. The same year he added the “von” to his last name, he received two awards at the International Festival of Film Schools in Munich for his pieces Nocturne (1980) and Last Detail (1980). This revelation caused a gigantic sadness and emptiness in the already introverted Lars, this event was the impulse of anger that led him to forge his hard and powerful personality. Hartmann, Niels Gade, Johan Ernst Hartmann and Niels Viggo Bentzon. Hartmann came from a family of classical musicians: Emil Hartmann, J. His mother confessed on her last days that she had decided to get pregnant with Hartmann because of the artistic genes that Lars would inherit. In 1989 it was revealed to him that his real father was the German Fritz Michael Hartmann, Minister of Social Affairs of the Danish government. He was educated as an atheist and once declared that there was no place for “feelings, religion, or fun” in their house. His parents were Inger Høst and Ulf Trier, she was a leftist progressive and he was a social democrat. He added the “von” to his name later, when he was a 25-year old student at the National Film School of Denmark, influenced by the directors Erich von Stroheim and Josef von Sternberg. Although his biological father’s name was Hartmann, Lars took the last name of Ulf Trier (of whom he thought to be his father until 1989). He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 30, 1956. At the same time, Von Trier is considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of contemporary cinema. He has been exiled from the Cannes Film Festival, denounced for sexual harassment and racism, and has been highly criticized and declared as mentally ill due to the themes of his films. Currently, Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial filmmakers.
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