I'm sorry to admit that I couldn't even make it through the entire 2 and 1/2 hours of this film. Usually I have high tolerance. But essentially, nothing happens for the first hour and fifteen minutes. We just see the actors mugging for the cameras and trying to look complex and emotional. There is sparse dialogue and the usual attention to style over substance that foreign films demonstrate. Emily Watson is too whiny and Stellan Skarsgaard hardly made an impression on me. And despite the Stellan's devastating accident, you know that things won't pick up. This movie was much worse than Dancer in the Dark. Do not rent it. You will be making a mistake. Go rent "The Celebration" instead.
Review of Breaking the Waves
