WT03.06 Breaking the Waves (1996)
Watching Theology June 17th, 2009
God's Silence Series: no. 4. When Bess married Jan, it united an outsider and an insider, an oilworker and a member of a strict religious community. Their marriage was a happy one: sensual, fun, passionate. All that ended when Jan returned to his oil platform and Bess was left alone. She resumed prayers to a talkative God, a being who once was her only confidant. When Bess asked God to bring Jan back home to her, she took a significant step to a time of trial and atonement, losing her dignity and experiencing the silence of God in a real and traumatic way. Breaking the Waves is Lars von Trier's controversial parable about the struggle between the sacred and profane, spiritual and physical love, and an angry and loving God. It may also be a 1970s Scottish version of Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
See Davey Morrison's excellent interview with Richard Dutcher and his review of Falling.
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Coming soon: In Bruges (perhaps) and Richard Dutcher's Brigham City.
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