Dancer in the Dark

Denmark: Zentropa Entertainments, 2000. Collection of six vintage color still photographs and one borderless photograph of director Lars von Trier on the set of the 2000 film. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive, and later the collection of Daniel Bouteiller, with respective stamp and label to the verso of four of the stills.

A tragic and uncommon take on the classic Hollywood Musical, Icelandic pop singer Bjork plays a Czechoslovakian immigrant looking to make a better life for her son, who has an inherited genetic disorder that will result in blindness for them both, unless she buys him a very expensive operation which she eschews for herself. Winner of the Palme d'Or, as well as a Cannes award for Bjork for Best Actress, and nominated for an Academy Award as well.

Set in rural Washington state, shot on location both in Washington and in Sweden and Denmark.

4 x 6 inches. Fine condition.

[Book #138759]