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Breaking the Waves (1996)

Posted By: Manavgat

Date: 21 May 2010 20:21:31

Breaking the Waves (1996)

Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars von Trier's Danish company Zentropa. It is the first film in Trier's 'Golden Heart Trilogy' which also includes The Idiots from 1998 and Dancer in the Dark from 2000.

Plot:

Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries Norwegian oil rig worker Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. Bess is somewhat simple and childlike, and has difficulty living without Jan when he is away on the oil platform, where he is scheduled to work for ten days. She prays for his immediate return, and when he returns the next day paralyzed by an industrial accident, she believes it is her fault. No longer able to perform sexually, and mentally affected by the accident, Jan urges her to find and have sex with other men and then tell him the details, saying that it would be like them being together again and thus give him a reason to live. With each act of promiscuity she performs Jan's health improves. Bess slowly begins to believe that what she is doing is the will of God. She goes aboard a ship at anchor as a prostitute, but when the men try to have brutal sex with her she fights her way out. Learning that Jan has taken a turn for the worse, Bess returns to the ship. She is brutally gang raped and dies in the hospital. Jan, at this point, miraculously makes a full recovery. The community treats her like a whore during her burial. Unbeknownst to the community, however, Jan and his coworkers have replaced her body in the coffin with bags of sand. They take her actual body out to sea and throw her body in the ocean. Jan and his coworkers hear the peal of church bells coming from the sky in the middle of the ocean, signaling that she is accepted by God.

Release NFO

Title: Breaking the Waves (1996)
Source: DVD / PAL / M6 Vidéo
Size: 2.344.675.388 bytes (1/2 DVDR)
Runtime: 02:32:22
Format: MKV

Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1195M)
Video Bitrate: 1592 kbps
Resolution: 692x440 (Anamorphic, displayed at 2.236 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 2.236 (SAR: 64/45)
Frame rate: 25 fps

Audio Codec: AC3 (5.1 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 448 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz

Language: English
Subtitles (muxed in): VobSub: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, French, German

SA: HP @ Level 4.1

Notes: About the noise/grain and lack of details:
In modern film editing, the original film
footage is transferred to video where it is edited to its final
cut, then used as a guide for a negative cutter going back to the
original film footage. In the case of this film, however, they
just recorded the video edit back to 35mm, resulting in its
unique, highly grainy look.

From IMDb: "The director's cut of then film, featuring explicit
shots removed from the US version for ratings purposes, is
available on Criterion laserdisc". This is incorrect as the
original version isn't a 'directors cut' just the original uncut
version. This release is uncut and no explict shots were removed!
It also has Davie Bowie's "Life on Mars" on the last
"inter-title" as shown in theatres, while all other old video DVD
releases (including Criterion's Laserdisc) have Elton John's
"Your Song" - so this should be the first release that have the
original soundtrack. The Bowie song was removed because of
problems with song rights.

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