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What do you think of the movie ''Breaking the waves''?

Apr 22, 2007 by ursula!!! | Posted in Movies

do you know the movie ''breaking the waves''? it was releashed at 1996 and it is a highly respected movie....but is it concerned to be part of the ''quality movie theater''? and if you agree, do you know any other movies of ''quality movie theater''?

This is my all time favorite movie. No other like it.
But others almost as good-
The English Patient
Sheltering Sky
Like Water for Chocolate
Il Postino
9-1/2 Weeks (yes- not a typo)

ditdit | Apr 22, 2007

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Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson

BREAKING THE WAVES

Emily Watson as Bess telephone conversation in Lars Von Trier's 'Breaking The Waves' 1996

Get in the car

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 Is based on a novel by James Sallis, but it looks and feels very much like a Refn project. The word is that that the treatment had been bandied around a dozen major studios before ending up in his lap.

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Source: Irish Times

Breaking the Waves 1996 - Bookshelf


Breaking the waves
158 pages 		Breaking the waves

Creator: Lars von Trier | Drama - 1996
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Micropolitics of media culture, reading the rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari
302 pages 		Micropolitics of media culture, reading the rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari

Creator: Patricia Pisters, Catherine M. Lord | Performing Arts - 2001
In Lars von Trier's BREAKING THE WAVES (1996), we are presented with such a face , up front and close up. As the very first image of the film we see the face ...
Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Breaking the Waves 1996 - News


Cinema 10 Tonight - Melancholia
WWNY TV 7 - Dec 31, 1969
I have seen three of Von Trier's films, Dogville (2003), Dancer in the Dark (2000) and the amazing Breaking the Waves (1996). To say that you love a Von Trier film is a bit much, but to say that you wont' forget them is a totally acceptable statement.

Finnish cinema's global breakthrough
Helsingin Sanomat - Dec 31, 1969
Danish films that have done better than The Flight Before Christmas include Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier, and Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig. Norway has no successful films on a par with The Flight Before

Obama's Eddie Haskell versus Romney's Ward Cleaver
AsianWeek - Dec 31, 1969
In 1996, when it was politically expedient to do so, he explicitly supported gay marriage. In 2004, when Barry was making waves on the national scene, and it was no longer useful to support gay marriage, he suddenly repudiated it — with no reference

POSTED BY: Jesse Skinner
TORO Magazine - Dec 31, 1969
But back in 2000 the Danish director was riding high on a wave of Oscar attention (for Breaking the Waves, 1996) and public controversy (for unsimulated sex scenes in The Idiots, 1998). Casting avant-pop star Bjork in her first (and it would turn out,

'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies
Tbo.com - Dec 31, 1969
President Bill Clinton awarded Sendak a National Medal of the Arts in 1996 and in 2009 President Obama read “Where the Wild Things Are” for the Easter Egg Roll. Communities attempted to ban him, but his books sold millions of copies and his