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1. filmfolly.com › movies-explained › breaking-theBREAKING THE WAVES. Von Trier’s Touching Masterpiece Explained

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   Jul 9, 2024 · For one simple reason: 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. You can either hate or love von Trier’s film.

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   Aug 1, 2021 · How 'Breaking the Waves' Evokes the Spiritual Through the Natural. By Cameron Olsen. Published Aug 1, 2021. Link copied to clipboard. A wide-eyed young woman, battered and bruised, advances on...

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Breaking_the_WavesBreaking the Waves - Wikipedia

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   Breaking The Waves is a 1996 psychological romantic [7] melodrama [8] film directed and co-written by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson in her feature film acting debut, and with Stellan Skarsgård, a frequent collaborator with von Trier.

5. www.tasteofcinema.com › 2016 › pulling-focusPulling Focus: Breaking the Waves (1996) - Taste of Cinema

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   Sep 18, 2016 · “Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves is a genuinely spiritual movie that asks ‘what is love and what is compassion?'” – Martin Scorsese. In a broken dream. Set in remote North-West Scotland’s Outer Hebrides of the 1970s is the ill-at-ease and heart-rending romance of Lars von Trier’s paralyzing (and, alas, polarizing) melodrama, Breaking the Waves.

6. www.spiritualityandpractice.com › films › reviewsBreaking the Waves | Film Review | Spirituality & Practice

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   Breaking the Waves is Danish writer and director Lars von Trier's first English language film. It is set during the 1970s in a small town in northern Scotland. Jan, a gregarious oil-rig worker, marries Bess, a childlike woman who lives with her mother, grandfather, and widowed sister-in-law.

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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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   Is breaking the waves a positive or negative film?

   • Breaking the Waves is undoubtedly “a film by Lars von Trier.” A French author, Paul Valéry, said that “the decline of art begins with a signature.” In other words, a work will be judged in relation to its creator. Do you see this as positive or negative? I see it as positive. I haven’t got any problems with that.

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   Is breaking the waves uncredited?

   • You also break the rule about the film being uncredited. Breaking the Waves is undoubtedly “a film by Lars von Trier.” A French author, Paul Valéry, said that “the decline of art begins with a signature.” In other words, a work will be judged in relation to its creator.

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   How did breaking the waves change Lars von Trier?

   • Breaking the Waves marked an important change in focus for Lars von Trier. In von Trier's early films, the protagonist is a man, typically a disillusioned idealist whose downfall is furthered by a deceitful, fatal woman. In this film, for the first time the protagonist is a woman, emotional and naive.

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   What happened in breaking the waves?

   • Breaking the Waves is a film where a lot of things happened by accident. The art director, Karl Júlíusson, who I think did an excellent job, had decided how the different locations should look. But what we ended up seeing in the shot was a complete coincidence—which happens, of course, when you work with a handheld camera.

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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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8. www.criterion.com › current › postsLars von Trier on Breaking the Waves | Current | The ...

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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.