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Breaking the waves
Title
Breaking the waves.
Publication
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 159 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1996.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, 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.
Variant and related titles
Kanopy Criterion collection.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2023
Publisher's number
1113345 Kanopy
Genre/Form
Feature films.
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