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Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. She is somewhat simple, and has difficulty living without him when he is away on the oil platform. She prays for his return, and when he returns paralysed after an industrial accident, she believes it is her fault. No longer able to make love, Jan urges her to find and have sex with other men, and then tell him the details. She slowly begins to believe that what she is doing is the wish of God. Image File history File links Breaking_The_Waves_Poster. ...
Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2000 Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ...
Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2000 Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ...
Emily Watson Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an English actress. ...
Stellan Skarsgård (help· info) (born June 13, 1951, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. ...
October Films was a U.S. independent film studio and film distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing Life is Sweet. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is the worlds most prestigious film festival, first held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
Calvinism is a system of Christian theology and an approach to Christian life and thought, articulated by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the 16th century, and subsequently by successors, associates, followers and admirers of Calvin and his interpretation of Scripture. ...
An oil platform is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean. ...
Michelangelos depiction of God in the painting Creation of the Sun and Moon in the Sistine Chapel) This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and derived henotheistic forms. ...
The movie was written by Lars von Trier, Peter Asmussen and David Pirie (uncredited), and was directed by von Trier. It stars Emily Watson as Bess, in her first film role, and Stellan Skarsgård as Jan. Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2000 Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ...
Emily Watson Emily Anita Watson (born January 14, 1967) is an English actress. ...
Stellan Skarsgård (help· info) (born June 13, 1951, Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. ...
The film shows influences of the Dogme 95 movement, of which von Trier is a founding member. It is often referred to as a Dogme 95 film, this is a misnomer. It violates several of the Dogme 95 rules. One example, Dogme 95 emphasizes the use of real locations. Most of the locations in Breaking the Waves are deceptively realistic, but were in fact constructed in a studio. Dogme 95 (in English: Dogma 95) is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. ...
Breaking the Waves won the "grand prize" at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the 1996 European Movie Awards: Film of the Year, International Film Journalists Award, and European Actress of the Year (Watson). Emily Watson was nominated for the 1996 Academy Award for Best Actress, and the 1997 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for best actress. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is the worlds most prestigious film festival, first held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of...
The European Movie Awards are the most prestigious paneuropean movie awards. ...
Janet Gaynor getting the first Best Actress Oscar from Douglas Fairbanks Sr. ...
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Filming locations
The Old Man of Storr, Skye The Isle of Skye, usually known simply as Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach in Scottish Gaelic) is the largest and most northerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. ...
Mallaig is a port on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland. ...
Morar is a small village in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 257 [1]. It lies on both the West Highland Main Line and the A830 Road to the Isles, between Fort William and Mallaig. ...
Kongens Lyngby (shortform Kgs. ...
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