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Breaking The Waves
Film Description Von Trier's intense latter-day religious parable takes several laudable (and award-winning) risks in telling the tale of Bess (Emily Watson), a young woman having 'conversations with God' and continuing to marvel at the world even as her tight-knit Highland community takes sides against her.
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DVD Extras Selected commentary by Lars von Trier and Anders Refn.
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Article - "Katrin Cartlidge: Breaking Away"
by Julian Upton
When Brookside started on Channel 4 in November 1982, it instantly revolutionised the British TV soap opera. Cheaply videotaped with outside broadcast equipment in and around real, purposely-built houses in a faceless modern suburb of Liverpool, it had the un... View article in full
Article - "Dogville"
by Alex Davidson
Although many critics have decried the misogynist overtones that supposedly prevail throughout Lars Von Trier’s cinema (citing the horrific treatment dispensed to the innocent characters played by Emily Watson and Bjork in Breaking The Waves and Dancer In T... View article in full
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