Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves • 2h 39m
Directed by Lars von Trier • 1996 • Denmark
Starring Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge
Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil rig accident. BREAKING THE WAVES, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.
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BREAKING THE WAVES Selected-Scene Com...
This selected-scene audio commentary features director Lars von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle.
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Stig Bjorkman on BREAKING THE WAVES
In this interview, conducted in New York in May 2013, filmmaker and critic Stig Björkman talks about being on location during the shooting of BREAKING THE WAVES and observing director Lars von Trier at work.
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Emily Watson’s BREAKING THE WAVES Aud...
The following footage is from Emily Watson’s audition for BREAKING THE WAVES.
