Alternative Film Weekend
Friday March 10th doors 7pm
Betws-y-Coed Memorial Hall

DANCER IN THE DARK

2000, Lars von Trier, 140m

The most unlikely musical ever made, unhappy and miserable where most are blissful and bright.
Björk stars as Selma, a Czech immigrant to Washington State in 1964, she hears music in the noise of the factory, in the rattle of the train, and these rhythms erupt, in her imagination, into song-and-dance.
This provocative film is still haunting days later, and that’s probably the best reaction any artist could hope to elicit with their work.

“Spellbinding...aims right for the heart and aces its target” Rolling Stone
Palm D’Or, Cannes Film Festival, 2001
Oscar Nominated, 2001