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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 ...
Apr 14, 2024 · Breaking rules Hailed as a “post-millennial Mozart” by Time Out New York, composer Missy Mazzoli makes Detroit Opera history with her modern masterpiece Breaking the Waves, an unforgettable emotional experience based on the film by Lars von Trier. Bess undergoes a spiritual journey when her husband, Jan, survives a paralyzing accident ...
BREAKING THE WAVES, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits. 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.
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeill 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. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are ...
Breaking the Waves er en spillefilm fra 1996, der foregår i Det skotske højland i 1970'erne, som fortæller historien om Bess McNeill, der trods modstand i sit lokalsamfund og hendes presbyterianske kirke, gifter sig med en mand Jan, der arbejder på en olieboreplatform. Hun er lidt enfoldig og har svært ved at leve uden ham når han er ude og arbejde på olieboreplatformen.
This is a well-made and widely acclaimed film by Lars von Trier, a talented director-writer whose unusual outlook sets his work apart. The Kingdom, his 1994 Danish supernatural miniseries about weird doings at a hospital, was riveting, shocking, and hilarious. Breaking the Waves is just as black and obsessive but far less funny.
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, the first entry of his "Golden Hearts" Trilogy, and the beginning of a radical change in direction for the famously restless filmmaker. Set somewhere in the Highlands in the 1970s, the story concerns Bess McNeill ( Emily Watson ), a naive, borderline simple young ...
