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  1. 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.

  2. BREAKING THE WAVES (Remastered in 4K) This restored edition of Lars Von Trier's powerful drama features a recorded introduction by Ari Aster, writer-director of the acclaimed HEREDITARY and MIDSOMMAR. Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) lives a calm and quaint Christian life amongst the Scottish Highlands.

  3. Breaking the Waves (4K restoration) Films. View trailer. Breaking The Waves, dir. Lars von Trier, Denmark / Sweden / France 1996, 160 min., English. Enduring Provocations: The Films of Lars von Trier. Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) lives a calm and quaint Christian life amongst the Scottish Highlands.

  4. 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. 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.

  6. Aug 1, 2021 · A religious epic by no means, the film employs a very stripped down, minimal aesthetic to profoundly examine concepts of faith, doubt, love, and God. As such, von Trier’s film manages to ...

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  8. In a small and religious coastal town, a simple, devoutly religious Scottish woman, Bess McNeill (Emily Watson), finds a partner in an oil rig worker from Norway, Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgard).

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