Lars von Trier
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Sep 12, 2026
SimonHOST
Today's review is of Dancer in the Dark from 2000.
SimonHOST
Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark is a film that defies easy categorisation, blending elements of crime, drama and musical genres into a singular cinematic experience.
SimonHOST
Set in the small-town backdrop of Washington State in 1964, the film follows Selma Jezkova, a Czechoslovakian immigrant, played by the enigmatic Björk, Selma's life is a tapestry of hardship and hope, as she toils in a factory to save money for an operation that could prevent her son, Gene, from inheriting her degenerative eye condition.
SimonHOST
Her world is a delicate balance of reality and fantasy, with musicals providing a much-needed escape from her bleak existence.
SamHOST
Oh, no. I'm
GriffeyHOST
taking Lars von Trier.
GriffeyHOST
Hell yeah.
GriffeyHOST
So I'm doing Lars von Trier directing Nicolas Cage in Willem Dafoe Two-Hander.
GriffeyHOST
He's a bit of a Nazi.
GriffeyHOST
This is a
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GriffeyHOST
everyone's list is so good.
SamHOST
Can you restate yours again?
MartinHOST
The film, for me, when I mentioned it to you, yes, it's like a mix.
MartinHOST
It's a mix of Saw and what Lars von Trier would do with The House that Jack Built.
MartinHOST
If you listened to our episode with that, kind of like Vinnie Jones, how he looks and his quirks and stuff, very similar.
MartinHOST
Um, and the gore too.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
But just as, you know, the kind of filmmaking that hardly anyone undertakes these days...
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
I thought the last person to try anything like this with that kind of genuine craziness was Lars von Trier.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
I would say this goes, you know, beyond Trier at his balmiest.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
It's really something.
Steve GuntliHOST
... seems like that's his vibe.
Steve GuntliHOST
He's got that kinda Lars von Trier sort of like, uh, uh, uh, beyond provocateur.
Steve GuntliHOST
Like, he's kind of got a schoolyard bully vibe.
Steve GuntliHOST
[laughs] Like I say that-
Carlson YoungGUEST
But that really does complete the totality of my taste at a foundational level, like The Lion King with A Little Princess.
Carlson YoungGUEST
And then came like teenage me, which was like very obsessed with Lars von Trier and like David Lynch and a lot of like, you know, I don't know, a little bit really dark shit.
Carlson YoungGUEST
And, um, Yeah, I mean, it really was extremely dark, hyper-masculine stuff that made me want to be a director, which is interesting because I think a lot of my journey is like, healing of feminine kind of a thing inside of me.
Carlson YoungGUEST
So it's interesting.
Jedidiah AyresGUEST
And, um, you know, I was just a really great little observation in the film.
Jedidiah AyresGUEST
Another negative pushback on the film I found with people disconnecting over the, uh, the reason O'Shea Jackson gets fired at the beginning of the film for taking, you know, he's like a youth pastor and he, he takes the church youth group to see Lars von Trier's Antichrist, which, um, I, As someone who grew up in the church myself, I can attest I convinced my youth group leader to show us Ridley Scott's black reign, and it nearly got him fired.
Jedidiah AyresGUEST
And I know other people, you know, who, I mean, obviously...
Jedidiah AyresGUEST
I thought you were going to
KlonPANELIST
... check it out
MattHOST
'Cause, uh, The Idiot is a Lars von Trier movie, or von Trier-
KlonPANELIST
Oh, the Idiot's a different-
C BearPANELIST
Yeah
KlonPANELIST
Oh, well you know what? They do actually-
MattHOST
Oh
KlonPANELIST
... that's funny, they make a R- Lars von Trier reference at the beginning.
KlonPANELIST
The guy-
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
And it's not something you forget easily when you see him doing it.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
But he talks about an interesting range of films, Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
The funniest thing he does is he talks about – he shows a clip from Jeanne Dielman and talks about how, you know, the moment of – sort of sexual ecstasy is the moment at which her personal order falls apart because it disrupts it.
Jonathan RomneyGUEST
So what does she do after the murder? Well, in the film, she sits at the kitchen table in the dark, but the way Zizek would like to see it, she sits at the kitchen table in the dark to a huge chunk of Anne Butterfly playing Inna Gadda da Vida.
EliHOST
It's just like, I can't believe you can even get in a realm to act like that.
EliHOST
I know Charlotte Gainsbourg is kind of like the weird actress in these kind of movies and is like the stepping stone for Lars von Trier to get weirder in his later career.
EliHOST
I mean, Antichrist is another good example, but...
EliHOST
I have some issues with that movie.
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