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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.
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.
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Nov 29, 1996 · “Breaking the Waves” is emotionally and spiritually challenging, hammering at conventional morality with the belief that God not only sees all, but understands a great deal more than we give Him credit for.
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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Sep 18, 2016 · Alternately comic, calamitous, and ruinous, Breaking the Waves is preternaturally vivid and, for better or worse, unforgettable. “[Lars von Trier] makes us wonder what kinds of operas Nietzsche might have written.
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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 became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence.