Breaking the Waves

Audience Reviews

View More

Hagrid W Feb 27, 2019 What there is to say? Chapters, nudity, sexuality, gloominess: a very Lars von Triery film! One of my favorite actually. I never like to say things about the plot, so I will just say that is definitely not so easy nor straightforward as the trailer made me think it was. Or at least, the plot is, but the moral complexity behind that is all another level. I also loved the VHS-kind-of view and the beautiful songs chosen. See more

Kylo S Nov 23, 2018 It is curious to see how Lars von Trier uses a number of plot elements and devices that could be simply considered too hard to buy and more appropriate in a soap opera, and yet he manages to make everything so touching and genuinely devastating, with a powerful performance by Emily Watson. See more

Poe R Aug 6, 2018 Emily Watson delivers what has to be one of the most dedicated, emotionally immersive performances ever in (perhaps) Lars von Trier's most grounded work that deals intelligently with themes of love and faith. See more

Albus S Jul 17, 2018 Immensely intense and depressingly realistic drama investigating issues of compassion, love, faith and innocence; Emily Watson's performance is spectacular. See more

Hermione S Sep 23, 2017 Does true love really know no bounds? This question seems like the very springboard behind Lars von Trier's cold, controversial romance, Breaking the Waves. The film features a timid, tender and tormented young girl (Emily Watson), brainwashed by a Calvinist cult but saved by her progressively obsessive love for a cool outsider (Stellan Skarsgard). Or so she thinks. Watson is mesmerising as the malleable, comfort-seeking psychotic at the film's heart - a lost, psychologically-challenged soul who is manipulated as much by herself and her beliefs as she is by the people around her. This is a girl who, for her, talking to God is a literal two-way conversation between her doubts and fears, and hopes and dreams. Her performance is breathtaking and her character is as challenging as it is chastising - we feel for her and fear her in equal measure as the film transitions from romance, through to tragedy, psychosexual chaos and jaded spirituality. Using Watson's simple soul as a pure, human puppet, von Trier's taps into the very essence of love, hope and fear. See more

Finn P Jul 27, 2017 Przelamujac fale sciska serducho, zatyka tetnice, nie daje zapomniec.

Read all reviews

Breaking the Waves

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING