Lars Von Trier is a experimental director of great skill, a leading light of the Danish Dogma group of primitivist mannerism. Bjork is a brilliant disciplined dramatic performer and musical artist as well as dancer. But in spite of professing compassionate feeling for the problems of working women, Dancer presents a shockingly brutal murder by Selma the leading character in a less than serious way, even ridiculing her dreams, which are symbolized in the light-hearted style of a Broadway musical, as an evasion of prosaic and "serious" worldly reality. This is painful because it depicts Romantic dreams as mental problems, an "aristocratic" attitude assumed by the Dogma filmmakers.
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