Breaking the Waves (1996)
Country: DK/SV/FR/NL/NOR
Technical: col/scope 159m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Synopsis:
In severest Presbyterian Scotland, a girl from a particularly repressive and remote community courts a Norwegian rig worker, subjecting herself in his long absences to increasingly abject levels of self-abasement.
Review:
Shot for much of its length in unattractive Dogme style, von Trier's characteristic wallow in the more extreme forms of human behaviour nonetheless keeps a faux-naïf(?), religiose card up its sleeve for the climax. The cumulative effect is curiously powerful.
Country: DK/SV/FR/NL/NOR
Technical: col/scope 159m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Synopsis:
In severest Presbyterian Scotland, a girl from a particularly repressive and remote community courts a Norwegian rig worker, subjecting herself in his long absences to increasingly abject levels of self-abasement.
Review:
Shot for much of its length in unattractive Dogme style, von Trier's characteristic wallow in the more extreme forms of human behaviour nonetheless keeps a faux-naïf(?), religiose card up its sleeve for the climax. The cumulative effect is curiously powerful.
Country: DK/SV/FR/NL/NOR
Technical: col/scope 159m
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Synopsis:
In severest Presbyterian Scotland, a girl from a particularly repressive and remote community courts a Norwegian rig worker, subjecting herself in his long absences to increasingly abject levels of self-abasement.
Review:
Shot for much of its length in unattractive Dogme style, von Trier's characteristic wallow in the more extreme forms of human behaviour nonetheless keeps a faux-naïf(?), religiose card up its sleeve for the climax. The cumulative effect is curiously powerful.