Synopsis: With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown caused by the death of her brother, Bess marries a rough yet compassionate and attentive oil rig worker named Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). 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' 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 1990s, 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.
Reviews:
Roger Ebert |
Variety.com |
allmovie |
Rotten Tomatoes |
IMDb (external reviews)| Quote: |
Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant. -- Roger Ebert |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115751/IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (20,050 votes)
Tomatometer: 84%
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast:
Emily Watson .... Bess McNeill
Stellan Skarsgård .... Jan
Katrin Cartlidge .... Dodo McNeill
Jean-Marc Barr .... Terry
Adrian Rawlins .... Dr. Richardson
Sandra Voe .... Bess' Mother
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Title: Breaking the Waves (1996)
Source: DVD / PAL / M6 Vidéo
Size: 2.344.675.388 bytes (1/2 DVDR)
Runtime: 02:32:22
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1195M)
Video Bitrate: 1592 kbps
Resolution: 692x440 (Anamorphic, displayed at 2.236 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 2.236 (SAR: 64/45)
Frame rate: 25 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (5.1 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: English
Subtitles (muxed in): VobSub: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, French, German
SA: HP @ Level 4.1
Notes: About the noise/grain and lack of details:
In modern film editing, the original film
footage is transferred to video where it is edited to its final
cut, then used as a guide for a negative cutter going back to the
original film footage. In the case of this film, however, they
just recorded the video edit back to 35mm, resulting in its
unique, highly grainy look.
From IMDb: "The director's cut of then film, featuring explicit
shots removed from the US version for ratings purposes, is
available on Criterion laserdisc". This is incorrect as the
original version isn't a 'directors cut' just the original uncut
version. This release is uncut and no explict shots were removed!
It also has Davie Bowie's "Life on Mars" on the last
"inter-title" as shown in theatres, while all other old video DVD
releases (including Criterion's Laserdisc) have Elton John's
"Your Song" - so this should be the first release that have the
original soundtrack. The Bowie song was removed because of
problems with song rights. |
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Subtitles / VobSub: Greek, Czech, Volapük, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu, Romanian, Yoruba
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