Breaking The Waves (DVD) Reviews

In my opinion one of the very best films that Lars Von Triers has made, "Breaking The Waves" couldn't be more different to "Antichrist" or at least, the sound of "Antichrist", as I'm too squeamish to watch it! Breaking The Waves starts off with Emily Watson's character "Bess" screaming and ...  Read the complete review

A twisted, sadistic, manipulative, nasty little piece of nothing very much from the twisted, sadistic, manipulative and nasty Lars Von Trier, Breaking The Waves is, like his later Dancer In The Dark and Dogville, a cynical, misogynist melodrama that comes a hell of a lot closer to "Torture Porn" than anything Eli Roth has ever crafted. ...  Read the complete review

Breaking The Waves is the story of Bess, a naïve and childlike young woman living in a close-knit religious community in a remote area of Scotland. Bess falls in love with Jan, a free-spirited Norwegian oilrig worker and the pair marry. Their relationship is so passionate and intense that Bess is inconsolable when Jan has to go back to the oil ...  Read the complete review

Lars Von Trier’s ‘Breaking the Waves’ is a powerful and emotive story of obsessive love. Set in the Scottish Islands we follow the love life of one of their local girls marrying out of the village to a worldly stranger, Jan, that bewitches the young girl. When an accident renders Jan paralysed he insists that his new wife takes ...  Read the complete review

It was, I think, during a screening of this movie at Cannes that the film critic Mark Kermode stood up and shouted 'Il est merde!'. Even if that was during one of Von Trier's other movies (and it could have been any one of them), most people will probably react in this way when watching 'Breaking the Waves'. It's ...  Read the complete review