Break the Wave
The strangely touching drama about religion, love, and sex was released 20 years ago.
Let's dive in and examine its secrets. Von Trier said the well-known actors who were approached to play Bess "didn't want to lay their careers on the line" with a movie that's "a strange mix of religion and sex and obsession.
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The London-born actress had ample stage experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but she'd never acted on film. She described it in a Criterion DVD bonus feature interview as being "like falling off a cliff, but falling off a cliff backwards. Watson grew up in what she described as "a kind of quasi-religious cult," and was technically still a member of it when she was cast in this film.
If the name Anthony Dod Mantle sounds familiar, that's because he's now a well-known cinematographer who won an Oscar in for his work on Slumdog Millionaire. He was a location scout for Breaking the Waves. Through stories about HELIUM - a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor Enzo, Alfred regains joy and happiness, and finds a safe haven.
Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous and important filmmakers of our time, Cheryl Dunye practically invented a new form of cinema - call it the 'Dunyementary. Cheryl Dunye plays a version of herself in this witty, nimble landmark of New Queer Cinema.
A video store clerk and fledgling filmmaker, Cheryl becomes obsessed with the "most beautiful mammy," a character she sees in a s movie.
Breaking the Waves
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The film is about so many things but what stood out most to me was the religious subject matter. The film just punches you in the gut. Emily Watson is a wonderful actress, her performance is the only thing this ugly thing has going for it. Mean spirited ultimately pointless film.
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The ending has to be one of the dumbest "ah come on! An honest, super depressing look at a mentally unstable woman Emily Watson and her marriage to an oil rig worker Stellan Skarsgard , and how they deal with their relationship after he is left paralyzed due to a work accident, and his only demand of her is that she find another lover that will somehow aid his healing.
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While it is a soul-crushing throughout its duration, and it occasionally threatens to overstep its bounds and become offensive, one can not help but be in awe of the brutal honesty and graphic depiction of a marriage on the rocks Lars von Trier brings to the screen. Not only is it a romantic-drama, it also has a philosophical spin on the nature of religion and how the negative, secluded sections of the religious folk can be some of the worst human beings possible.
It is anti-religious, but it is never an illustration of the norm of religious people. It is moreso a frank, disturbing look of a woman who needs help but the very people she turns to forsake her for their own selfish desires. Emily Watson's unforgettable, powerful performance drives this moving all the way to it's discouraging conclusion.
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It may not be easy to get through given its length and subject, but the way von Trier shoots this thing with a handheld camera to capture a grainy feel , as well as his handle on the material is something to be in awe of. A disturbing yet beautiful film. Von Trier's masterpiece and the best use of a Rod Stewart song in a movie. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. Season 7 Black Lightning: Season 2 DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 Doctor Who: Season 11 The Flash: Season 5 This Is Us: Season 3 Saturday Night Live: Season 4 The Walking Dead: Weekend Box Office Results: Breaking the Waves View All Photos 1.
With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. For a brief time, the couple enjoys peaceful wedded bliss, with the worldly Jan introducing Bess to the mysteries of sex. Jan must soon return to his job on the rig, however, where he is paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident.
Bess' emotional trauma over Jan's injury turns into obsession as she prays to God for his recovery and offers to do anything to have her husband back whole. Jan, constantly medicated and profoundly depressed, asks Bess to have sex with other men and tell him about it, thinking this will allow her to return to a normal life. Bess, on the other hand, sees it as an expression of her devotion to Jan that even God won't be able to ignore.
Bess's resultant downward spiral leads to a finale of both tragedy and spirituality. Breaking the Waves is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive European movies of the s, marking von Trier's movement toward his influential Dogma 95 school of filmmaking, which emphasizes realistic situations of contemporary life, filmed without background music and with a hand-held, restlessly moving camera.