»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something he has done that is not so easy to forgive. Confronting an unknown darkness in Lasse, and in herself, Annika is forced to recognize the high cost of saying yes to love.
Acting
Trine Dyrholm's face does more work than most scripts.
Direction
Fischer Christensen lets silence scream.
Director
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Pernille Fischer Christensen's second feature after her breakthrough 'En Soap', establishing her as a leading voice in Danish cinema's exploration of messy female protagonists.
The film participated in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight, part of a wave of early 2000s Danish cinema that rejected Dogme 95's constraints for more psychologically driven intimacy.
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