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With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown .. Read more

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  Top 10 Emily Watson

  • 12 Apr 2010

  title year Watson achieved her first major on-screen role in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. Replacing Helena Bonham Carter, who dropped out at the last minute because of the film’s explicitly sexual content, Watson took on the role of Bess McNeil; a naive young woman, who prostitutes herself believing that her sexual encounters and GodR Read more

  

  Antichrist

  • Jonathan Crocker
  • 20 Jul 2009

  The most controversial film of the year? Hard to imagine anything else coming close. Danish bad-boy Lars von Trier emerges briefly from the chronic depression that threatened to end his career and gives himself – and us – an audacious dose of shock therapy. After suffering a family tragedy in the gorgeous, slo-mo opening sequence (lensed in black and white by Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar-winning Director of Photography Anthony Dod Mantle), a traumatised mother (Charlotte... Read more

  

  Helena Bonham Carter: English Rose Gone Bad

  • 02 Mar 2010

  A homicidal red-headed tyrant, a killer robot, a sadistic witch, a purveyor of cannibal pies and a corpse bride… This is what Helena Bonham Carter has been getting up to recently: unleashing her inner freak. As your mother would say, she seemed like such a nice girl… She was still a teenager when she starred as Lucy Honeychurch in Merchant-Ivory’s production of EM Forster’s A Room With A View back in 1985. To all intents and purposes she was the perfect English rose:... Read more

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    With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. ...

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