It isn't impossible to make a musical out of a tragic weepie (think of Carmen Jones), but this one's too bleak and will make you distinctly uncomfortable and too unbelievable not to raise a few unintentional chuckles. Czech-born US immigrant Selma (Icelandic singer Björk) is going blind and hoarding money to save her son suffering the same fate. Her everyday life, in which she lives in a trailer and becomes an increasing danger at the factory, is shot in drained colour, in contrast to her daydream world (cue musical sequences) in bright hues - though in both cases the colour stock used is poor. The policeman (David Morse) on whose ground she rents space, strapped financially by his free-spending wife, steals Selma's savings. In the ensuing struggle he's shot by her with his own gun. Having committed her savings to the operation, she refuses to hire fresh counsel to re-open the case when new evidence emerges after she has been sentenced to death - though you'd have thought her friends could have a raised a couple of grand between them... Although she's a touchingly unaffected actress, Björk's strong but shrill voice, so hypnotic in concert, can't do much for the energetic but hardly free-flowing musical sequences in a film most people will find a bit of a trial, long before we get to the harrowing courtroom and Death Row sequences at the end.