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Faith -- Drama.
Marriage -- Drama.
Paraplegics -- Sexual behavior -- Drama.
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Breaking
the
waves
[videorecording (DVD)].
Criterion Collection, 2014.
Call #:
DVD BRE Dra
Subjects
Faith -- Drama.
Marriage -- Drama.
Paraplegics -- Sexual behavior -- Drama.
Series
Criterion collection ; 705.
Video Difference legacy collection.
ISBN:
9781604658330 (Blu-Ray + DVD combo)
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Edition:
Director-approved, dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special ed.
Description:
2 videodiscs (159 min. + bonus material) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Lars von Trier, with 5.1 Surround DTS-HD master audio soundtrack on the Blu-Ray ; selected-scene audio commentary featuring von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle ; new interview with filmmaker and critic Stig Bjorkman ; new interviews with actors Emily Watson And Stellan Skarsgard ; interview from 2004 with actor Adrian Rawlins ; excerpts from Watson's audition tape, with commentary By Von Trier ; deleted scene featuring the late actor Katrin Cartlidge ; Cannes Film Festival promotional clip ; trailer ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt and an excerpt from the 1999 book Trier on von Trier.
A Denmark/France/Netherlands/Norway/Sweden co-production.
Home use only.
English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production:
Produced by Vibeke Windeløv, Peter Aalbaek Jensen ; written and directed by Lars von Trier.
Performers:
Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård and Katrin Cartlidge with Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Sandra Voe, Jonathan Hackett and Udo Kier.
Summary:
"Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgard) is paralyzed in an oil rig accident.
Breaking
The
Waves
, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits."--Container.
Genre:
Erotic films.
Romance films.
Melodrama and tearjerker films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Trier, Lars von, 1956-
Watson, Emily, 1967-
Skarsgård, Stellan.
Cartlidge, Katrin.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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