Breaking the Waves
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Cannes Film Festival — Grand Jury Prize Bodil Awards — Best Film |
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"Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant." — Roger Ebert
Lars von Trier's drama put the "Dogme" school of stripped-down filmmaking on the world cinema map. In a religious Scottish coastal town, pure-hearted Bess (Emily Watson) finds her devotion to her Danish husband Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), an oilrig worker, tested to extremes when, after suffering near-total paralysis following an accident, he urges her to seek sexual gratification with other men. Bess follows her husband's wishes to dark ends in hopes it will miraculously heal her husband.
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Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars von Trier's Danish company Zentropa. It is the first film in Trier's 'Golden Heart Trilogy' which also includes The Idiots from 1998 and Dancer in the Dark from 2000.
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