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Nov 29, 1996 · 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.
SPOILER. Breaking the Waves (1996), a triumph, betrayed by its ending (of course there be spoilers here) Discussion. This thread talks about the ends of three movies, if you haven't seen the three movies it might spoil them for you. -- There was a recent thread. Which movie if changed up a little bit could look like a classic or close to being one?
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. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it is about an unusual young woman and the love ...
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Dec 6, 1996 · Breaking the Waves is subdivided into eight chapters, each heralded by a psychedelic Day-Glo landscape and a snippet of ’70s rock — a Eurohipster’s version of stained glass and cantatas. It ...
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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.
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,...
The tricky, impish, eye-poking Von Trier of today (see his serial killer shlock The House That Jack Built) couldn’t be further from the director of this earnest, yet harrowing, heartbreaker about a...
