Breaking the Waves is set just in the right environment, in the most northerly, desolate, grayest, depressing, most inhospitable part of 1970s Scotland. One of the few films i think is worth their long runtime. A story which weights heavy on the heart, and is an emotional storm mostly in the hands of religion, love and delusions. A conceived sense of balance between the supernatural and the real even between the dramatic and the pathetic, as we follow Bess travel further and further away from what we call reality.
Emily Watson makes it her own movie with her ability to express emotions in her facial expressions and the confidential looks she gives straight at us, we do not lose the illusion, as others usually say, but are drawn even deeper into Bess's world of thought. Skarsgård's and Cartlidge's role is a necessary catalyst, and does it so very well.
Emily Watson makes it her own movie with her ability to express emotions in her facial expressions and the confidential looks she gives straight at us, we do not lose the illusion, as others usually say, but are drawn even deeper into Bess's world of thought. Skarsgård's and Cartlidge's role is a necessary catalyst, and does it so very well.