Breaking The Waves (1996)

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Genres:

Drama

Languages:

English | Italian

Reviews:

5 reviews

Released:

01 September 2003

Format:

DVD

Staring

Director

Lars Von Trier

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Breaking the Waves

damien from Cork, 27 Jul 2007

A true original and well worth watching. Great performance by Emily Walters. Interesting locations, north of Scotland, the oil-righ world. A powerful emotional film....

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Breaking the Waves

Marguerite from Cork, 22 Jan 2011

Unusal filming presenting separate chapters of a tragic love story. Needed some patience to stay with it. Emily Watson played a strong part very sensitevly.

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distrurbing

Jessica from Dublin, 13 Jan 2009

Fiund this moving profoundly disturbing - not one for my collection but very well acted

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breaking the waves

John from Kildare, 06 Feb 2009

strange but intersting movie

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One not be on top 20

Charyl from Dublin, 17 Jul 2007

expected more from film

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What's it about....

Danish director Lars von Trier's BREAKING THE WAVES is a sweeping romantic fable that is photographed like a low-budget documentary, resulting in a strikingly original motion picture from one of contemporary cinema's most distinct visionaries. Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) is a shy young woman living in a small Scottish shore town dominated by a strict religious sect. When she meets Jan (Stellan Skarsgaard), an offshore rig worker, the two immediately fall in love. Jan embraces...

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