| October Films | Release Date: November 13, 1996 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
It was a bleak allegory -- a desperate, sullen, and moderately sick tale.
For this mortal, the film converts piety into pathology and then converts it back again at the end with a Song of Bernadette conclusion. I don't know what the title means. I do know that this ridiculous film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[ Dec. 9, 1996]
This long, sometimes hard-to-watch movie is a challenge, but it has authority and raw power.
Not only one of the best films of the year, it's one of the best films of the decade.
Whether or not Breaking the Waves succeeds as a profound work is something that's hard to say after one viewing, but it is certainly a wholly original piece of work.
The longer the movie drones on, the queasier it gets. [6 June 1997, Life, p.3D]
A movie about the passions of simple people, and it's done with such extraordinary empathy and commitment that it all but pulls you under. [29 November 1996, Friday, p.A]
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