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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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   Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the Breaking the Waves movie on Quotes.net.

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

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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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6. 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.

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

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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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   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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   What is breaking the waves based on?

   • Breaking the Waves was the first film in von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy, named after a book he read as a child about a little girl in the woods who gives away everything she has to those with needs greater than her own.

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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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   Is breaking the waves a Dogme movie?

   • Breaking the Waves was von Trier’s first theatrical film after the Dogme manifesto was unveiled in March 1995, and, ironically, it contains too many exceptions to the Dogme “Vow of Chastity”—studio sets, post-dubbed music, computer graphics, and so on—to qualify for certification.

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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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   Apr 14, 2014 · It’s a journey into the human heart, so the story and characters are what matter most. Watson plays Bess McNeill, an innocent young woman who lives on an island off Scotland’s northern coast, where the inhospitable climate and landscape are matched by the stony joylessness of the inhabitants.