Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier·158 min

Bess lives in a severe religious community on the Scottish coast, her faith childlike and total. When her husband is paralyzed and asks her to take other lovers and tell him about it, she folds the request into her belief and follows it to a terrible place.

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