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Breaking The Waves [1996]
starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins
directed by: Lars von Trier

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165679715
Format: Dolby, PAL, Special Edition, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Label: Pathe Distribution
Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pathe Distribution
Release Date: September 29, 1997
Running Time: 153 minutes
Studio: Pathe Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1996
Sales Rank: 9275

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a naive girl named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgård) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her towards the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark) has made a wonderful, entirely unexpected and rigourous work of discovery in this film, with a formal visual design that recalls classic films by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Watson is a phenomenon, her wide-eyed wonder at the world as God's handiwork is a breathtaking portrayal of conviction. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- superb movie
The acting is superb,wonderful cinematography,a story which makes you laugh in some places and cry in others.A gem of a film and a bargain at the price.

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- Outstanding
I'm not a fan of "artsy" type films and this is usually the kind that falls into the category of them.

Bess, a naive virginal highly religious woman marries an Oil Rig worker called Jan and begins a journey of sexual discovery and realisation. When he goes away to work back on the rig, she falls into a deep depression and holds conversations with God begging for his return.

Her prayers are answered but not in the way she'd wished - Jan returns home having been in a tragic accident and is paralysed for what the Doctors advise her could be life.

Jan tries to be selfless and tells her to go out with other men, to have erotic encounters, but to come back and tell him about them as it is the only real pleasure ... Read More:

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- An insult
This film is an insult to the viewer. There is absolutely no redeeming factors here, and it seems that the only point of making this film is to see how much filth you can get away with.

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- Didn't expect to but loved it
This is quite a hard film to watch but perseverance pays off.The synopsis and previous reviews are explanatory so I won't repeat previous comments except to concur with the view that Emily Watson is fantastic. I had never heard of her but will actively seek her other work.

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- A different kind of film...
Breaking the Waves is a rather unusual film. It has a strange feel and a dark aura to it - so much so that it makes Eastenders look fun. The core of the story is that Bess, a local lass from a small village somewhere in the north of Scotland, falls in love with Jan - a Norwegian oil rig worker in a sheepskin jacket. They get married and all is well until Jan goes offshore again and is paralysed after getting caught up in a childish prank whilst on his rig.

Bess is a bit mentally unstable at the best of times, but this throws her over the edge and she becomes acutely mentally ill.

The situation is not helped by the fact that her paralysed husband can no longer meet her sexual demands and so actively encourages her to find ... Read More:

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