Dancer in the Dark comes after Lars von Trier’s experimentation with the Dogme ’95 movement, which sought to strip away the control and financial limitations imposed on movies by the studio system, just as the French New Wave had sought to lock the industry in their own studios by shooting hand-held in the streets in the late 50’s and early 60’s. While …
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