Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves Soundtrack

Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a barely contained naive named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgard) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her toward the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (The Kingdom) has made a wonderful, entirely unexpected, and rigorous work of discovery in this film, with a formal visual design that recalls classic films by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Watson is a phenomenon, her wide-eyed wonder at the world as God's handiwork a breathtaking portrayal of conviction. --Tom Keogh

Genre: Drama, Romance
Stars: Emily Watson, Stellan SkarsgÄrd, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Production: Artisan Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 42 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
R
Year:
1996
159
Website
1,835 Views
#SongDuration
1In A Broken Dream3:41
2Hot Love4:56
3Child In Time10:17
4Suzanne3:49
5Virginia Plain2:56
6Whisky In The Jar5:43
7Whiter Shade Of Pale4:04
8Goodbye Yellow Brick Road3:12
9Cross Eyed Mary4:09
10Siciliana4:31

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