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Aro Recommended Breaking the Waves

 

Denmark 1996, 158 minutes
Dir. Lars Von Trier
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Drama / Independent

Topics: Arthouse.

 

Aroview: Significant art-house hit about obsessive faith and self-sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young woman marries a worldy, charismatic oil-rigger, but their blissful union is dealt a cruel blow when he is left debilitated by an accident. Von Trier's bleak yet stirring religious indictment/allegory is captured by an agitated camera, though, like his heroine, his rare feat of film-making bravado requires rigorous commitment and endurance. In English.

NZ International Film Festival 1996

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • cast and/or crew interviews
  • deleted scenes
  • extra stuff
  • aspect ratio: 2.35:1
 

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