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True art is a journey to somewhere you've never been, and there has never been a movie quite like Breaking the Waves.
100
There are few movies around that take such huge risks: this is high-wire filmmaking, without a net of irony.
100
It was a bleak allegory -- a desperate, sullen, and moderately sick tale.
100
One of the most haunting and vital movies of the year.
100
Not many movies like this get made, because not many filmmakers are so bold, angry and defiant.
100
Right from the opening shot of Breaking the Waves...von Trier seems to be looking for the first time at life, not just the movies.
100
This is a dark, often funny walk through Ingmar Bergman turf.
100
Not only one of the best films of the year, it's one of the best films of the decade.
100
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]
100
Philosophically complex, spiritual but anti-religious, harrowing yet hopeful.
