Breaking The Waves (#705) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: April 15, 2014
Order Link: Amazon.com

Denmark
1996
159 minutes
Color
2.35:1
English

Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. Emily Watson stuns, in an Oscar-nominated performance, 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.

Disc Features:

1. New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier, editor Anders Refn, and location scout Anthony Dod Mantle
3. New interview with filmmaker and critic Stig Björkman
4. New interviews with actors Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgård
5. Interview from 2004 with actor Adrian Rawlins
6. Watson’s audition tape, with commentary by von Trier
7. Deleted and extended scenes, with commentary by von Trier
8. Deleted scene featuring the late actor Katrin Cartlidge
9. Cannes Film Festival promotional clip
10. Trailer
11. New English subtitle translation
12. PLUS: An essay by critic David Sterritt

 

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