Cannes 2021

  • Festivals

Vintage Cannes: 2000 – The Year of Björk

Up until May 2000, Björk was a well-known Icelandish rockstar, first with the band Sugarcubes in the mid-80s, and, as of 1993, as a solo performer. Cannes changed everything: the unpredictable choices of Croisette enfant terrible Lars von Trier had put Björk front and center in his musical drama Dancer in the Dark, and the result - including the customary quarrel between critics and festivaliers - was a Palme d'Or for von Trier for Best Film, and a Best Actress award for Björk.