Basket Top
Basket Left
Empty
Basket Right
Basket Bottom

Login \ Create an Account 

 
 
Your AccountHelp Home

 

On this Page

>> Reviews & Articles

>> Collections & Lists

>> Customers who bought...

>> Other Films by...

 

Website Security
HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime. MovieMail use a Thawte certificate to ensure secure transmission of your information. Click here for for information

 

Explore Film Catalogue

# World Cinema

# Classic Film

# Contemporary Film

# Silent Film

# Television

# Documentary

# Animation

# Art & Avant-garde

# Gay

 

 

Latest Film Catalogue

 

 

 

 

MovieMail Blogs

Milo WakelinCelluloid Confetti

by Milo Wakelin

Nixon II Oliver Stone Takes On Bush

Romero vs Argento Between a Rock and a Sharp place

Im Scratching my Itch for Hitch

 

James OliverFrom the Cheap Seats

by James Oliver

Sir David vs The Critics

Summer Lovin

Cavalcanti

 

MovieMail Blogs >

 

Film Media

Still of the Hour

Stalker

Stalker

 

Latest Stills

The Andzrej Wajda War Trilogy

David Niven Collection (Screen Icons)

Death of a Salesman (Hoffman)

Cluny Brown

A Cottage on Dartmoor

#View all stills

 

Articles

Sex, Class and Censorship

“You don’t come out of my films with a wonderful glow” - An interview with Terence Davies

Troubled by gnawing things: Rat-Trap

Gérard Depardieu-From Jacques the Lad to...?

The Hollywood Studio System in the 1930s

#View all articles

 

Trailers

I Served the King of England
Medium (11.30 MB)

The Last Mistress
Medium (9.60 MB)

Up the Yangtze
Medium (12.70 MB)

The Boss of It All
Medium (4.00 MB)

War Inc.
Medium (16.00 MB)

#View all trailers

 

View Media Home >

Breaking The Waves

Breaking The Waves  Sleeve

Our DVD Price: £5.99

RRP: £12.99 Save £7.00 (53%)

 

Availability

This product should be despatched within 4 days.  This product will be dispatched from Guernsey. Delivery times

 

Earn 25 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info

 

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.

 

Film Information

Director Lars Von Trier
Starring Jean-Marc Barr, Katrin Cartlidge, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard

 

Genre Contemporary Film

 

Country Denmark Language English   Year 1996

 

DVD Extras

Selected commentary by Lars von Trier and Anders Refn.

 

Technical Details

Certificate 18   Length 151 mins   Label PATHD
Cat No P8903DVD   Format DVD   Colour
Region2    
Subtitles Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Finnish, Italian, Romanian, Portugese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish.

 

Reviews & Articles

Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review

 

Browse all Film Reviews

 

Article - "Katrin Cartlidge: Breaking Away" by Julian Upton
Wednesday 4th June 2003

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
Monday 21st June 2004

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

 

 

 

 

Collections & Lists

This film is part of the following Film Collections

 

A Beginner's Guide to Dogme 95

Including: Breaking The Waves, Dancer in The Dark, In Your Hands, Italian for Beginners, Julien Donkey-Boy, Red Road, The Idiots, The King Is Alive.

 

#View all collections

 

This film is part of the following Customer Film Lists

 

Halliwell's Top 100 Movies by MovieMail

Leslie Halliwell was one of the most authoritative of film critics and a new edition of the film bible lists the Top 1000 movies of all time. Here we list the Top 100, all of which are undoubted classics that stand up to repeated viewings and which are testament to the brilliance that cinema can achieve.

 

Religion and Politics by Kevin Mullen

Two subjects that fascinate me, and I will stretch the categories to breaking point in making my choices.

 

#Create your own Film List!

 

 

Customers who bought this also bought...

Recommendations from fellow customers

 

Seven Samurai

by Akira Kurosawa

 

The Tin Drum

by Volker Schlondorff

 

Breathless (Godard, 1959)

by Jean-Luc Godard

 

La Regle du Jeu

by Jean Renoir

 

Night And Fog

by Alain Resnais

 

 

 

Other films by...

More films directed by Lars Von Trier

 

Lars Von Triers E-Trilogy - Element Of Crime / Epidemic / Europa

 

Europa

 

The Idiots

 

Dancer in The Dark

 

Dogville

 

View more >

 

More films starring Stellan Skarsgard

 

Insomnia

by Erik Skjoldbjaerg

 

Timecode

by Mike Figgis

 

Passion Of Mind

by Alain Berliner

 

Dominion - Prequel To The Exorcist

by Paul Schrader

 

The Exorcist Collection

by Various

 

View more >

 

More films starring Emily Watson

 

Hilary And Jackie

by Anand Tucker

 

Angelas Ashes

by Alan Parker

 

The Luzhin Defence

by Marleen Gorris

 

The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers

by Stephen Hopkins

 

Punch-Drunk Love

by Paul Thomas Anderson

 

View more >

 

More films starring Jean-Marc Barr

 

Europa

by Lars Von Trier

 

The Scarlet Tunic

by Stuart St Paul

 

The Red Siren

by Olivier Megaton

 

Dogville

by Lars Von Trier

 

Lars Von Triers E-Trilogy - Element Of Crime / Epidemic / Europa

by Lars Von Trier

 

View more >

 

More films starring Katrin Cartlidge

 

Naked

by Mike Leigh

 

Career Girls

by Mike Leigh

 

No Mans Land

by Danis Tanovic

 

Crime and Punishment

by

 

View more >

 

 

 

Special Offers

Two Excellent DVDs for just £12!

Summer of British Film - from just £5.99!

More Great Offers


#

British Classics from Odeon Entertainment


#

A fine selection of World Cinema from just £6.99!


#

The Best in World War II Films and Documentaries


#

Sex, Class and Censorship


#

Feast on Chinese Film - from £5.99


#

The Films of the Boulting Brothers


#

Summer Holidays - from just £5.99!


#

The Best of the BBC - from just £5.99!

View all Special Offers

 

 

Cloak and Dagger

 

There will be blood

 

No Country for Old Men

 

BestSellers

1

Recommended by MovieMail Angel Face

 

Our Price: £5.99

2

Recommended by MovieMail Kim (Saville, 1950)

 

Our Price: £5.99

3

Private Schulz

 

Our Price: £12.99

4

Recommended by MovieMail The London Nobody Knows / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

 

Our Price: £8.99

5

Recommended by MovieMail Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

 

Our Price: £15.99

6

Robbery

7

Black Five: The Last Days of Steam

8

The Orphanage

9

Seven Days to Noon

10

Cloak and Dagger

View all bestsellers >

 

Recommended by MovieMail

A curated collection of the best DVDs

 

Latest Additions

Recommended by MovieMail Son of Rambow

 

Our Price: £11.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail A Year In Provence

 

Our Price: £10.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Elgar's Tenth Muse

 

Our Price: £11.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Black Five: The Last Days of Steam

 

Our Price: £9.99

 

Recommended by MovieMail Water Lilies

 

Our Price: £11.99

 

 

Show:

 

 

View more
Recommended DVDs >

 

Just Released

The Patrice Leconte Collection
by Patrice Leconte

You, the Living
by Roy Andersson

Map of the Human Heart
by Vincent Ward

Margot at the Wedding
by Noah Baumbach

Screen Icons: Richard Attenborough
by Various

View release schedule

 

Coming Soon

Target for Today
by Imperial War Museum

The Elephant Man
by David Lynch

Four Minutes
by Chris Kraus

A Comedy of Power
by Claude Chabrol

Tropical Malady
by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

View full schedule


Home   |  Film Catalogue  |  New Releases   |  Special Offers  |  Top 30
Film Collections  |  Film Media  |  News  |  Your Account  |  Help |  Become a MovieMail affiliate

For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk

© 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail

HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime. MovieMail use a Thawte certificate to ensure secure transmission of your information. Click here for for information