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Breaking The Waves (1996) Movie Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
True art is a journey to somewhere you've never been, and there has never been a movie quite like Breaking the Waves....read the complete Breaking The Waves (1996) review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
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Time (Richard Corliss)
In its pagan fervor, this is an almost religious experience....read the complete Breaking The Waves (1996) review at Time (Richard Corliss)
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Slate (Sarah Kerr)
Audiences are likely to embrace Breaking the Waves as something rare and fierce and innovative, a passport into the depths of passion, but some people will reconsider when they get home....read the complete Breaking The Waves (1996) review at Slate (Sarah Kerr)
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Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Although it contains many visually compelling passages and some provocative moments, the movie is strangely banal and simplistic....read the complete Breaking The Waves (1996) review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
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by Robin Bruce on March 15, 2009
I like to pick up a European movie from time to time, and most of them, are soso. This one, however, was so indepth, so close to the actual person, and so atypical of how we allow others to shape and form our mental capacities, I swear, I had to pause ...
by G. Merritt on November 05, 2008
Set in a remote, repressed, and deeply-religious community in the 1970s Scottish Highlands, Danish film director Lars von Trier's film, Breaking the ...
by Juz-b-yosef on October 24, 2008
Emily Watson plays an innocently naive, very religious, and perhaps slow-witted young newly-wed dealing with love for God, her Family, and her husband within her old-fashioned and intolerant Scottish community. The film is mostly shot in grainy ...
by Adam on May 29, 2008
One of the best films of 1996, this is a story of love that knows no boundaries, and of sacrifice. Emily Watson gives the performance of her career as Bess, a simple woman who has just married Jan, played by Stellan Skarsgard. Within the boundaries of ...
by Gary E. Robbins "... on May 03, 2008
Hang in there! This is a touching movie that can be very hard to watch. For me, it was about following your own inner guidance, and being true to yourself ...
by John Farr "The Be... on July 11, 2007
Von Trier's disturbing, fiercely ...
by Cecily Champagne on December 11, 2006
What a powerful cinematic experience! BREAKING THE WAVES, directed by the always-controversial Lars von Trier, explores the concepts of love and faith with more poignancy and more intensity than any other film that I can think of. ...
by Perrin Færch on August 07, 2006
Breaking The Waves is quite possibly one of the best, and most powerful film of the 90's. It is considered one of the films in the Dogme movement started by Danish filmmakers including this film's director, Lars Von Trier. The Dogme movement was started ...
by L. Zajicek "Artol... on January 19, 2006
We live in a world of instant gratification in which the smallest and most insignificant of deeds are lavishly praised with the greatest of compliments. Oh you know, an athlete scores, for example, and he or she instantly ...
by James C. Levins "... on October 22, 2005
Lars Von Trier is the world's greatest living director and Breaking the Waves is by far his best film. The best scene is when the young guy at the wedding sits next to the old guy and chugs the brew. The old guy then chugs a glass of water. The young guy ...
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