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Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. 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 Skarsgård) 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.Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up t... Read more

Watch "Breaking the Waves" from streaming services MAX, Vudu, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1996. It's a drama and romance movie, and has a rating of 7.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.

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