Breaking the Waves (1996)

Breaking the Waves (1996) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Goya Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
156 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Iceland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Lars von Trier

Written By:
Lars von Trier
Peter Asmussen

Actors:
Emily Watson ..... Bess McNeill
Stellan Skarsgard ..... Jan Nyman
Katrin Cartlidge ..... Dodo McNeill
Jean-Marc Barr ..... Terry
Adrian Rawlins ..... Dr. Richardson
Jonathan Hackett ..... Priest
Sandra Voe ..... Mother
Udo Kier ..... Sadistic Sailor
Mikkel Gaup ..... Pits
Roef Ragas ..... Pim
Phil McCall ..... Grandfather
Robert Robertson ..... Chairman
Desmond Reilly ..... An Elder
Sarah Gudgeon ..... Sybilla
Finlay Welsh ..... Coroner (as Finley Welsh)
David Gallacher ..... Glasgow Doctor
Ray Jeffries ..... Man on Bus
Owen Kavanagh ..... Man at Lighthouse
Bob Docherty ..... Man on Boat
David Bateson ..... Young Sailor
Callum Cuthbertson ..... Radio Operator
Gavin Mitchell ..... Police Officer 1
Brian Smith ..... Police Officer 2
Iain Agnew ..... Praying Man 1
Charles Kearney ..... Praying Man 2
Steven Leach ..... Praying Man 3
Dorte Rømer ..... Nurse
Anthony J. O'Donnell ..... Boy 1 (as Anthony O'Donnell)
John Wark ..... Boy 2
Ronnie McKellaig ..... Presenter
Peter Bensted ..... Ugly Man (voice)
Simon Towler Jorfaid ..... Boy in Film (voice)

Synopsis:

Featuring an astonishing Oscar-nominated performance by Emily Watson, Lars von Trier's powerful Breaking the Waves tell the story of Bess, a naive young woman who marries Jan, a handsome oil-rig worker. Their martial bliss is cut when an accident on the rig leaves Jan paralyzed. Believing he will never make love to Bess again, he tells her to take other lovers, convincing her that this will help his recovery. Bess is sent spiraling into a world of dark emotions she cannot understand.

Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a barely contained naive named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgard) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her toward the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (The Kingdom) has made a wonderful, entirely unexpected, and rigorous work of discovery in this film, with a formal visual design that recalls classic films by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Watson is a phenomenon, her wide-eyed wonder at the world as God's handiwork a breathtaking portrayal of conviction.

Bess, a young girl, falls in love with an oil-rig worker called Jan. In a short space of time they marry and have a brief physical relationship before Jan returns to his rig. When an accident paralyses Jan he encourages Bess to take a lover...

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