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Breaking the Waves
1996
Breaking The Waves is a 1996 psychological romantic melodrama 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.
- $23 million
- $7.5 million
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good.
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).
- (1.4K)
- Lars Von Trier
- R
- Emily Watson
Nov 29, 1996 · The movie takes place in the 1970s, in a remote northern Scottish village. Bess (Emily Watson), a sweet-faced and trusting girl, is “not quite right in the head,” and her close-knit community is not pleased by her decision to marry Jan (Stellan Skarsgard), who works on one of the big oil rigs in the North Sea. But she loves Jan too much ...
Currently you are able to watch "Breaking the Waves" streaming on Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel. It is also possible to buy "Breaking the Waves" on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV online.
- (613)
- Bess McNeill; Jan Nyman; Dodo McNeill
- R
- 1996
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Aug 4, 2023 · Fri 4 Aug 2023 02.00 EDT. L ars von Trier’s deadpan-tragic fantasy of emotional pain from 1996 is now re-released as part of a retrospective dedicated to this director; it is magnificently acted,...