Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves

  • Director: Lars von Trier
  • Writer: Lars von Trier,Peter Asmussen,David Pirie
  • Countries of origin: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, S
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 13, 1996
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Contra viento y marea
  • "Breaking the waves" is a feature film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson and John Stellan Skarsgård . It premiered on May 18, 1996 at the 49th Cannes International Film Festival in France   .
    The film tells the story of the paralyzed oilfield worker Yang, in order to stimulate his will to survive, asking his wife Beth to have sex with someone else, but the sacrifice of love also makes Beth gradually go toward destruction   .

    Details

    • Release date November 13, 1996
    • Filming locations Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Production companies ARTE, Argus Film Produktie, Canal+

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $3,803,298

    Gross worldwide

    $3,828,405

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jacklyn 2022-04-22 07:01:33

      unexpected, beyond reason

      It was seriously unpleasant to watch, and it was a shocking five-star movie, but his foundation was a one-star screenwriter who was very brainless, and it can only be average in general. The screenwriter's brain damage is second only to his "Dancer in the Darkness". I watched "Dancer in the Darkness" first. It is estimated that in this film, the director will definitely make some abnormal tricks to attract attention, which is unexpected. In addition to being reasonable, every time the potential...

    • By Hillard 2022-04-22 07:01:33

      Conscience Trilogy movie review



      From a similar perspective, these three films of Jincheng/Wen Von Trier attempt to reveal a certain hidden hypocrisy in human nature and the different fragility of two kinds of people who resist this hypocrisy. Precisely because it not only reveals that something is "deformed", but also to some extent the people who resist this "deformed" thing (in whatever way) are "deformed", so all three films are "deformed". With deep contradictions, irreconcilability and (especially...

    • By Joaquin 2022-04-22 07:01:33

      Breaking the waves out of the water is hard to catch


                 Shaohua's love for love, once it is given, will be overwhelmed.

                                                                                                                                                ——The inscription is

                about Beth, a girl in her youth, madly in love with Yang, an underground worker who works in a field. She can't wait to marry Yang despite the objections of the town residents and her elders. But in that highly religious town,...

    • By Marlee 2022-04-22 07:01:33

      Record as you watch, cd-2 starts

      Take this approach to watch movies in the future?
      It is helpful for thinking, the movie is very miserable, a little long, the progress is a little slow, and the process of watching is a little impatient. I am impatient and like fast-paced.
      Maybe the director is expressing the mental illness of the woman on purpose. Without reading the comments, I really don't think the woman is mentally ill. Instead, I think other women are more prone to mental illness.
      She is the only one who is...

    • By Estefania 2022-04-22 07:01:33

      Break the waves

      Breaking Waves tells the love story of a neurotic girl Beth, who desperately paid for love, but got a tragic ending for various reasons.

          In the story, she is innocent, kind and very beautiful. Beth is madly in love with her husband Yang. At first, her family was very opposed to their marriage, but she finally persuaded them with unremitting efforts.

          Beth and Yang were very happy at the wedding. Her beautiful big eyes shone with incomparable happiness. Of course, they...

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    • By Muhammad 2023-09-05 06:34:00

      The first Dogma95 film I personally saw, I didn't understand and hated Yang's approach. The surreal ending beautified Beth's pure and beautiful beliefs. After watching it, I was in a daze for a long time....

    • By Leann 2023-08-15 13:49:34

      Only the "madman" is the most beautiful in this...

    • By Annabelle 2023-06-06 04:42:16

      In the scene where Emily Watson got on and off the bus, she vomited, then lowered her head and blamed herself, and then comforted herself with a divine tone, her light brown eyes seemed to merge with the misty mountains behind her, When she left, she still learned how a rabbit eats. She was naturally used to it here, but God did not accept her. God is a bigger universe, and God will make you unable to do anything, so what is the meaning of our existence? This time, I found that Katrin Carter's...

    • By Pat 2023-05-09 17:42:13

      Lao Fengtou's dogma declaration The director still likes fairy tales, but it's a bit cruel. Why is it a woman? Isn't Jesus Christ a man...

    • By Milan 2023-05-03 14:50:07

      A sad woman I can't sympathize...

    Movie plot

    In an Irish town, a very conservative Catholic, a slightly neurotic young girl Beth ( Emily Watson ) was sent to a mental hospital by her mother because she could not control her emotions, but she still fell in love with one Yang ( John Stellan Skarsgård ) , a foreigner who works in the oil field , is newly married to Yan Er. He opened her erotic world and spent a honeymoon period of ups and downs. Soon after Yang returned to work, he...
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    "Breaking the waves" is a 19th-century Brondi romantic and dark film. The film is divided into eight chapters. Although it seems a bit ironic from the wedding chapter to the funeral chapter, the beginning of these chapters has a beautiful scenery and a beautiful music to set off the whole story. The color of the scenery is a bit like Oil painting and music also feel very comfortable, showing the emotions of every chapter. The film has...
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    Movie quotes

    • Judge: Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.

      Dr. Richardson: If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".

      Judge: Good?

      Dr. Richardson: Yes.

      Judge: You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?

      Judge: Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!

      Judge: Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?

      Dr. Richardson: [pause] No. Of course not.

    • Bess McNeill: Father, why aren't you with me?

      Bess McNeill: [as God] I am with you Bess. What do you want from me?

      Bess McNeill: [overjoyed] Where where you?

      Bess McNeill: [as God] Well don't you think I have other people who want to talk to me?

      Bess McNeill: Well of course. I hadn't thought of that.

      Bess McNeill: [as God] There's this silly little thing called Bess who keeps on wanting me to talk to her. And my work's been piling up a bit.

      Bess McNeill: But you're with me now?

      Bess McNeill: [as God] Of course I am, Bess. You know that.

      Bess McNeill: Thank you.

    • Bess McNeill: [as God] Bess McNeill, for many years you've prayed for love. Shall I take it away from you again, is that what you want?

      Bess McNeill: Oh, no. I'm still grateful for love.

      Bess McNeill: [as God] What do you want, then?

      Bess McNeill: I pray for Jan to come home.

      Bess McNeill: [as God, in an impatient voice] He will be coming home in ten days. You must learn to endure, you know that.

      Bess McNeill: I can't wait.

      Bess McNeill: [as God] This is unlike you, Bess. Out there, there are people who need Jan and his work. What about them?

      Bess McNeill: They don't matter. Nothing else matters. I just want Jan home again. I pray to you, oh please. Won't you send him home?

      Bess McNeill: [as God] Are you sure that's what you want?

      Bess McNeill: Yes.