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astrosheil [ 10.0 ]
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I couldn't get this movie out of my thoughts..even days after seeing it. It is a love story, alright but one so intense and dark it will break your heart. Emily Watson is an incredibly good actress who makes you believe that she would do these degrading things to please her disabled lover. She exudes sensuality and vulnerability.
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Dancing_P [ 10.0 ]
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Difficult but consistently fascinating, Breaking the Waves is essential viewing for those who think they can take it. Bess (Emily Watson) is a childlike Scottish woman who marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgard) who comes from the outside, which earns her the reprehension of the religious faculty in a town where religion is everything. Her husband is paralysed after an accident and tells her to seek other lovers and tell him about it; it’s the only thing that’ll keep him alive, he says. von Trier’s film encompasses so many themes and issues (faith, love, mental illness, sexuality, and so on) that it seems a near-miracle he didn’t fall flat on his face. It’s not exactly an audience-friendly film, clocking in at two-and-a-half hours, shot on handheld video and tackling heady subject matter, but there’s so much to absorb and so much food for thought here it’s practically overwhelming. In fact, my only regret is that I watched it alone; if there was ever a movie that was made for discussing, this is it. Watson is beguiling as Bess; I think it would be safe to consider this one of (if the not THE) best female performance of the 90’s. She’s superbly supported by Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr and Udo Kier and by the superbly gloomy cinematography. A masterpiece, quite simply.
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| Weighted Rating | : 7.4 |
| No. Ratings | : 14 | |
| No. Reviews | : 2 | |
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