Adrian Rawlins, Emily Watson, Jean-Marc Barr
The revolutionary Dogma 95 school of filmmaking washed up on American shores with this intense European drama starring Emily Watson as Bess, a naïve Scotswoman who's convinced that God will heal her p...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
Stats: 1,355 reviews
I wish I could find the words to review this film and talk about it for days. But there are just some movies that no matter what you say about them, it just isn't enough. Brilliantly stunning performances (I'd bow to Emily Watson if I saw her), in what is all together for me Lars...( read more)
Probably the most underrated, overlooked and misunderstood film of all time. Don't let the awful American poster put you off either, because this is without a doubt the most beautiful film made in the last 25 years. Its subject matter, pace and Dogma style puts many people off, a...( read more)
Although the cover of the dvd looks like something Richard Gere may star in, make no mistake...Lars von Trier has made a great film with stunning performances and dramatic intensity. In addition to its' message about sacrificial love, Breaking the Waves reveals the contrast betwe...( read more)
The Von Trier way of film making is always fascinating, usually not only due to the stories he has to tell but also the way he tells them. Breaking the Waves is simple compared to his other works (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) but all the better for it. Watson plays a highly reli...( read more)
I don't really feel like giving this film much credit, but for all its hatefulness and misogyny and its impossibly warped view of the world, it does have a few strengths. Emily Watson's performance is one of them; it's nice to think that her Oscar nomination is appropriate reward...( read more)
If you think this movie is good, you can check "Dancer in the Dark". I, myself couldn't understand why this director makes this kind of movies.
An elegy of a passionate,disproportionate nonetheless relationship,it's not that a divine creature could have controlled the subsequent actions of Bess,Von Trier IS the maestro who doesn't takes sides for all that matters.he preferably speaks through an alarm clock,the one which ...( read more)
WEB-LETTERBOX. Magnífica y depurada alegoría que tiene la fortuna de contar con un reparto de primera. No solo Emily Watson se destaca, sino también Stellan Skarsgaard y, más aún, Katrin Cartlidge. Es asombrosamente precisa en su exploración de la dimensión espiritual de una pers...( read more)
Deeply tragic and still boring. I come to think I simply don't like Lars von Triers movies with these unbearable minimalistic conversations.
It is not my favourite Lars von Trier, I much prefer his America trilogy over his Golden heart trilogy (of which this movie is the third), because of the former being more conceptual and I think that fits more nicely (as in being contradictive) into von Trier's radical views.
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You must see this. Von Trier' other work is pretty interesting and moving too.
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