Breaking the Waves

...air of mysticism. Is the movie misogynistic or about misogyny? That's part of the debate (one that also swirled around von Trier's "Breaking the Waves'' and "Dancer in the Dark''). Members of the press who saw "Antichrist'' at the Cannes Film...

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...to be anything but shocking. After all, the giving of offense has long been the stock-in-trade of its writer and director, Lars von Trier, the man who brought us "Breaking the Waves," "The Idiots," and "Dogville. " This year, the new film was...

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Breaking the Waves won the Grand Prix at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the 1996 European Film Awards including: Film of the Year, International Film Journalists Award, and European Actress of the Year (Watson). Emily...

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...figured we should balance the dynamic as much as possible." The spirit of the Dogme technique influenced Lars von Trier's film Breaking the Waves, although it is not a Dogme film. The first of the Dogme films (Dogme #1) was Vinterberg's 1998...

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...handheld-shot TV horror-series Riget (the Kingdom). He continued this visual technique in his next feature, Breaking The Waves, which won him the Grand Jury prize at the Cannes Festival. But being pissed he didn't win the Golden Palm, he...

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...boiled down to "just point a camera and shoot, and make it cheap," something he invented and then ignored - and he directed the films Breaking the Waves (great), Dogville (great), Dancer In The Dark (pretty good, plus, it features Bjork being...

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