Plot

A film, which will require place within America in 1964, focuses around Selmthe Jezkova (Björk), a Czech immigrant who has moved to the United States with her teenaged boy, Gene Jezkova (Kostic). It survive the life of impoverishment when Selmthe work on a factory with her good friend Kathy, world health organization she nicknames Cvalda (Deneuve). She rents the trailer page on the property of town policeman Bill Houston (Morse) and his married woman Linda Houston (Seymour). She is too chased per shy however lasting Jeff (Stormare) world health organization likewise works at a manufactory.

What there is no of these around Selma's life knows is that she has the hereditary, degenerative disease which is gradually stimulating her to last blind. She has been lay aside each penny that she makes (inside a twithin potty in her kitchen) to invite an operation which might check her immature boy from either the equivalent fate.

To escape a misery of her every day life Selma accompanies Cvalda to the local cinema where together they observe fabulous Hollywood musicals (or even additional accurately, Selma listens when Cvalda describes a two to her (to the annoyment of a second patron) or acts out the step upon Selma's hand applying her fingers.) Around her day-after-day-to-day life, after items come as well ho-hum or even disconcerting, Selma slips into daydreams or perchance the trance-like state in which she imagines a average circumstances & souls in her use at times erupted into elaborate musical theater figures. These songs, when launder numbers of of Bjork's songs, choose occasionally kindthe realistic noise (from either manufacturing plant machines buzzing to the healthy of the flag rapping against a flag pole in the wind) as an underlying rhythm.

Regrettably she slips into 1 such trance when working a machine at the factory, which she breaks. She is fired from either her job. Soon Jeff & Cvalda start out to understand that Selma might barely understand in the least. In addition, Bill reveals to Selmthe that his materialistic married woman, Linda, has exhausted tons of his lower cost per diaper change & asks Selma for a loan, which she declines to give. To comfort Bill Selma reveals her secret sightlessness, hoping that together it might part 1 a second's secret. Bill so hides in the corner of Selma's personal, caring she may't underst& him, and watches when she puts occasionally money within her kitchen tin.

A next day whenever Selma sink in she finds a tin is empty. She goes in a adjacent house to report the theft to Bill and Linda simply to hear Linda discussing how else Bill has brought page their safe deposit box to count their savings. She in addition reveals that Bill has "confessed" his affair with Selma, and that Selma must move out immediately. Caring that Bill was skint & that a money he is counting must exist as hers, she confronts him & tries to choose a money back. He draws the gun on her and within the struggle he is shot.

Linda discovers a children of them & assumed that Selma was attempting to steal a money & diarrhea off to tell the police. Bill begs Selma to choose his life, & she shoots at him many days however he doesn't die. within a prevent she bashes his head in by having the safe safe-deposit box. (Inside one of the scenes, Selma slips into a trance & imagines that Bill's remains stands higher & slow dances by owning her, urging her to dog to freedom.) She does, & will require a money to the Institute for the Blind to invite her boy's operation prior to a constabulary may require it from either her.

In time Selma is caught & sham test. These are on this text that she is pegged as a Communist sympathizer and murderess. Although she tells when much truth all about a situation as she could, she refuses to reveal Bill's secret because she promised does'nt to. In addition, whenever her claims that a cause she didn't use at times any money was because she was sending it to her father within Czechoslovakia come proven treasonably, she is convicted and given the death penalty.

Cvalda & Jeff yet put a pieces of the puzzle together & become back Selma's money, utilizing it instead to invite the trial lawyer who can free her. Selma becomes furious & refuses a attorney, opting instead to die like than allow her boy to last unsighted. In the prevent Selma is hanged to death, an clean-handed woman doing nothing further than trying to produce the better life for her little one.

Trivia

Actress Björk Guðmundsdóttir, who is known mostly for her musical career, hwhen described a run of making this film as & then emotionally burdensome and trying that she claimed she would non produce any appearances within film ever once again. Yet, inside 2005, she appeared around Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. Her disagreements by owning von Trier across a content of a film are easily-known (she wanted a ending extra uplifting; the song over the credits seems to help this conception). Deneuve & others use described her performance when feeling rather than acting.

A moving picture was filmed by having assibilate Hundred digital cameras so that multiple angles of each scene can be captured & filmed. It debuted at a Cannes Film Festival to standing ovations & disputation and was awarded a Golden Palm and the Best Actress award for Björk. A song "I've Seen It All" was nominated for an Oscar for best song, a performance of which launched Björk's notable swan-dress. The listings of tons of the various awards & nominations:

Academy Award - Right Song (I personally've Seen It Tons - Nominated) Awards of the Japanese Academy - Best Foreign Film (Won) Bodil Award - Right Actress (Björk - Won) Bodil Award - Right Film (Nominated) Brit Awards - Right Soundtrack (Nominated) Camerimage Awards - Gold Frog Award (Nominated) Cannes Film Festival - Right Actress (Björk - Won) Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm Award (Won) Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Right Actress (Björk - Nominated) Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Right Original Score (Nominated) Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain - Right Foreign Film (Nominated) Cesar Awards (France) - Right Foreign Film (Nominated) Edda Awards (Ireland) - Right Actress (Björk - Won) European Film Awards - Right Actress (Björk - Won) European Film Awards - Right Film (Won) Golden World Awards - Right Actress around the Film (Björk - Nominated) Golden Earth Awards - Right Original Song (We've Seen It Completely - Nominated) Golden Satellite Awards - Right Original Song (We've Seen It Everthing - Won) Golden Satellite Awards - Right Drama (Nominated) Golden Satellite Awards - Right Actress, Drama (Björk - Nominated) Golden Satellite Awards - Right Supporting Actress, Drama (Catherine Denevue - Nominated) Goya Awards - Right European Film (Won) Independent Spirit Awards - Right Foreign Film (Won)

In the weak of completely this eclat it should become noted that non entirely critical reaction was positive. Occasionally reviews claim that a pic occurs as loud, painful, tongue-tied mess & criticise a melodramatic plot.

One of a virtually all interesting aspects of this film is how else Von Trier super profits utilizes virtually each blackball Cold War era film cliche you've ever seen slung at a Eastern Prevent to describe Middle America (US): the relentless, disheartening, dehumanizing work; grey, dismal upwind, buildings & people; crushing hopelessness; inaccessible basic needs like health care; oppressive, callous, deadly authority & treacherous friends; even a dingy babushka for Selma. These are the grim & sobering vision.

Curiously, a film's title appears as a sentence within Joni Mitchell's lyric for her song "My Old Man" on the album Blue (1971): ''My old man/He's the singer in the park/He's the walker in the rain/He's the dancer in the dark''.

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