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1. • • Her life changes when she meets Jan, and outsider who works on the North Sea oil rigs. Their love - and the physical manifestation of it - transforms Bess. But their happiness is blighted when he suffers a terrible accident, and the body she desires so passionately becomes paralysed.
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   What is breaking the waves about?

   • Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits. Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves makes its way back into The Criterion Collection with a new dual-format edition.

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   Who wrote Breaking the waves?

   • Breaking the Waves (DVD liner notes). Vol. 705. The Criterion Collection. 2014. Tiefenbach, Georg (2010). Drama und Regie (Writing and Directing): Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-4096-2. Trier, Lars von (1996). Breaking the Waves. Faber.

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   Was breaking the waves based on a fairy tale?

   • Though Breaking the Waves deals with serious and relatively dark themes, it finds it origin in a Danish fairytale, revealing some of von Trier’s most juvenile inspirations. Lars von Trier's 1996 film 'Breaking the Waves', starring Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard, is certainly one of his best and was inspired by this fairy tale.

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   What happened at the end of breaking the waves?

   • But at the end of the book, after she’s passed through the woods, she stands naked and without anything. And the last sentence in the book was: ‘I’ll be fine anyway,’ said Golden Heart.” Bess from Breaking the Waves is an innocent-seeming young woman who has previously had treatment for a mental illness following the death of her brother.

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   Did Emily Watson talk about breaking the waves?

   • "First-time actress Emily Watson talks about "Breaking the Waves" ". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved 29 March 2024. ^ abSterritt, David (14 April 2014). " Breaking the Waves: Breaking the Rules". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 3 March 2017. ^ Björkman, Stig (18 April 2014). "Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves ". The Criterion Collection.

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   Where did breaking the waves come from?

   • The director explained, “The story for Breaking the Waves probably has its origin there. Golden Heart is the film’s Bess.” In fact, Breaking the Waves forms part of Von Trier’s ‘Golden Heart’ trilogy along with 1998’s The Idiots and 2000’s Dancer in the Dark.

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3. www.bfi.org.uk › sight-and-sound › interviewsNaked miracles: Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves

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   Aug 3, 2023 · Naked miracles: Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves. In our October 1996 issue, the Danish director discussed his Scotland-set tale of a marriage beset by tragedy. Updated: 25 March 2024. Breaking the Waves (1996) By Stig Björkman. From the Sight and Sound archive.

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   Plot. Bess McNeill is a young and pretty Scottish woman who has, in the past, had treatment for unspecified mental health illness after the death of her brother. She marries oil rig worker Jan Nyman, a Danish non-churchgoer, despite disapproval from her community and her Free Scottish Presbyterian Calvinist church.

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   Apr 18, 2014 · The following interview, conducted by Stig Björkman, originally appeared in Björkman’s 1999 book Trier on von Trier. It appears here courtesy of Björkman and Alfabeta Bokförlag AB, in a translation by Neil Smith. Breaking the Waves took five years and forty-two million kroner to make.

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   Jul 9, 2024 · Breaking the Waves draws you into a dangerous game, shocking and intimidating with the story of Saint Bess McNeill, played by the debuting Emily Watson, and… it is the most brilliant, most perfect acting role I have ever seen.

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   Sep 6, 2024 · Breaking the Waves tells of a strange young Calvinist woman (played by Emily Watson) who lives in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s. After her non-religious husband (played by Stellan Skarsgard) is severely injured in an industrial accident and is unable to perform sexually, he asks her to find a lover, and while she initially resists, she ...

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   Apr 10, 2014 · Synopsis. Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is ...

10. collider.com › breaking-the-waves-explainedHow Breaking the Waves Evokes the Spiritual Through the Natural

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    Aug 1, 2021 · A wide-eyed young woman, battered and bruised, advances on turbulent waves in a small boat. Her destination is a barge, on which some alarming men await her arrival. They stare her down like...