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Breaking the Waves (Paperback)

by Lars Von Trier (Author)

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A screenplay about religious dogmatism and erotic obsession through which love is endowed with life-giving powers of healing, and miracles can occur. Bess is a young woman raised in a devoutly religious community in the Outer Hebrides whose life is transformed when she meets an oil-rig worker.

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Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber (November 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571191150
ISBN-13: 978-0571191154
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,697,886 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great script and more, January 21, 1998

By	Eileen Galen (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This is the script, written by the film's Danish director Lars von Trier. A wonderful preface by Swedish film writer Stig Bjorkman, an article by photographer Per Kirkeby, and an introduction by Von Trier. Photos and film info, even the locations list. The story is compelling, obsessional, intensely carnal, heart-breaking, and critical of doctrinaire religion. Von Trier claims that, quite simply, it is a story about "good." He even advances the theory that love -- physical, sexual love -- can heal. Not a welcome notion in Calvinist Northern Scotland (or many other places, for that matter), the setting for the story. It was interesting to see how von Trier's much-touted (by the actors) commitment to improvisation allowed last-minute script changes -- and there were many. The book is beautifully assembled, translated gracefully from the original Danish. It's definitely great.

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