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	Breaking the Waves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church.
		Most of the locations in Breaking the Waves are deceptively realistic, but were in fact constructed in a studio.
		Breaking the Waves won the "grand prize" at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, and three awards at the 1996 European Movie Awards: Film of the Year, International Film Journalists Award, and European Actress of the Year (Watson).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breaking_the_Waves (361 words)

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		The characteristic of a breaking wave which can cause capsize is the fact that a mass of water on the crest of the wave or tumbling down the face of the wave is moving at approximately the speed of the wave.
		Of particular importance with regard to capsize potential are the shape of the front f ace of the wave and the momentum of the water in the breaking crest.
		Breaking waves formed in a towing tank or formed by the wake of a powerboat, as described later in this report, do not represent the complete spectrum of wave types which might be encountered in an ocean storm.
	www.sailrite.com /droguereport/breaking_waves.htm (675 words)

	Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking waves are also important in the generation of near surface turbulence and mixing and in the formation of clouds of bubbles.
		Breaking waves with significant air entrainment were observed to have wave lengths between ~0.1 of the dominant waves and that of the largest wind waves.
		The median value of the period of breaking waves is approximately half the period of the dominant waves and the mean height of breaking waves is ~0.7 times the significant wave height.
	pulson.seos.uvic.ca /bsw.html (490 words)

	Breaking the Waves
		Breaking the Waves, a powerful fable from Danish director Lars von Trier (Zentropa, The Kingdom) is as daunting as it is satisfying.
		The satisfaction comes from von Trier's audacious and ever-deepening sense for filmmaking — Breaking the Waves is his most ambitious and skillfully drawn narrative so far, and it offers the pleasure of undertaking an uncertain journey, unsure of where it might all end.
		Breaking the Waves is epic in scope, careering wildly from warm and fleshy love story to grim tragedy to something else entirely over the course of its 158 minutes.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/breaking.html (1277 words)

	MISR Image Gallery
		It is estimated that the sea floor was displaced several meters due to the quake, resulting in large ocean waves, called "tsunamis" from the Japanese for "harbor waves." The tsunami moved rapidly across the deep ocean, with speeds estimated around 640 km/hr.
		When the waves arrive in the shallower water near the shore, they grow and, if they become large enough, they will break in a manner similar to typical oceanic waves, but on a much larger scale.
		The MISR imagery provides measurements of the location and timing of the breaking waves, their angle relative to the shoreline, and their speed of propagation, which is estimated from these data to be around 30 kilometers/hour.
	www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery/galhistory/2005_jan_12.html (787 words)

	Review: Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the Waves is presented as an excursion in cinema verite.
		So, while there are times when Breaking the Waves may threaten to induce nausea (especially to those who sit close to the screen), this style effectively creates a faux documentary environment that breaches invisible barriers and brings us into painfully close contact with the characters.
		There's no denying that Breaking the Waves is a difficult motion picture to endure, yet, despite its length, it holds the viewer's attention for the full one-hundred fifty-nine minutes.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/breaking.html (950 words)

	Cool Beans - Breaking the Waves - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Third Wave feminists are generally thought to be those feminists who fall into "Generation X" generally speaking, those born between the late 1960s and the early 1980s.
		This is certainly not a completely new stance to undertake, as many Second Wave feminists have, themselves, talked about the deals with the patriarchy they have made in order to survive, and other contradictions and ambiguities that exist within their politics and ideologies.
		The idea that Second Wave feminists believe in identity politics is a generalization that certainly cannot apply to all Second Wave feminists, and the question as to whether identity politics is inherently a negative thing is open for question.
	home.comcast.net /~theennead/bean/intro.htm (928 words)

	Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the Waves is the movie of the year
		Then there's the scene in which Jan does a striptease for Bess: her amusement, horror, and arousal at the sight of her first naked man is an intimate essay in voyeurism.
		Von Trier is unabashed by the many faces of love; whether sacred or profane, like the waves themselves, it's a force that cannot be contained.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/11-21-96/BREAKING_THE_WAVES.html (811 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Breaking the Waves
		Breaking the Waves is a tragic movie that is disturbing in so many ways that its almost too painful to watch.
		Watching the decline of Bess is heart breaking especially since as she gets worse her husband improves and the church marches on, not missing a beat in its misogyny.
		Breaking the Waves won a slew of awards for Emily Watson, including an Oscar nomination in 1997, and a special director's award at Cannes in 1996 for Von Trier.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/breakingthewave-ms-133517032.html (505 words)

	Breaking the Waves (1996)
		Breaking the Waves is a stunning study of off-kilter innocence and the crushing mores of an ascetic religious community (where life is purely preparation for the hereafter).
		The style of Breaking the Waves deliberately evokes a fly-on-the-wall, documentary feel in an effort to bring the audience face-to-face with the characters.
		Fortunately this fails to harm the intimate nature of Breaking the Waves, although there is a nagging suggestion that Breaking the Waves could have been a masterpiece.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Breaking_Waves.html (805 words)

	Breaking the Waves
		Breaking The Waves is a story about people and emotions.
		Breaking the Waves functions on many levels, the twin themes of love and faith intertwining through most of the film.
		I study film in Australia at the moment, and I must say that 'Breaking the Waves"" is one of the best films I have ever seen and it captures the essentials of life totally!
	www.1worldfilms.com /breakingthewaves.htm (641 words)

	Breaking The Waves (1996): Reviews
		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.
		Audiences are likely to embrace Breaking the Waves as something rare and fierce and innovative, a passport into the depths of passion, but some people will reconsider when they get home.
		It's a film that articulates universal human truths through its images of primitive human behaviour, our lead heroine's wrenching expressions of grief at the very though of losing her husband, the act of intercourse and what this woman is willing to go through to keep her husband with her.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/breakingthewaves (1179 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Breaking the Waves" movie review (2004) "Breaking the Waves" review, Lars von Trier, Emily Watson, ...
		Breaking the Waves movie review, Lars von Trier, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett, Sandra Voe, Udo Kier.
		Quite simply the most emotionally devastating film I have ever seen, "Breaking the Waves" left me numb from ringing sadness, desperate loneliness and fuming anger.
		The night I returned home from seeing "Breaking the Waves," my phone rang twice and I didn't answer it -- I couldn't cope with anything remotely real until I came to terms with the emotions in the film.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/breaking.html (863 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Part of me would like to say that the achievement of Breaking the Waves is that for long stretches it doesn't seem emotionally hollow--that it's a very clever con game, a faux-naif masterpiece (unless one rejects the category as a contradiction in terms).
		(Though the dialogue of Breaking the Waves is in English--as it was in The Element of Crime--the shooting was done in Denmark and Scotland.
		So far Breaking the Waves hasn't become a hit, at least not in this country, but there are still other dumb reasons to see it, including the performances; Katrin Cartlidge as Bess's devoted sister-in-law, a part virtually antithetical to her role in Naked, is almost as good as Watson.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1296/12066.html (1987 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Breaking Tsunami Waves along India’s Eastern Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is estimated that the sea floor was displaced several meters due to the quake, resulting in large ocean waves, called “tsunamis” from the Japanese for “harbor waves.” The tsunamis moved rapidly across the deep ocean, with speeds estimated around 640 kilometers per hour.
		Additionally, if the tsunami waves strike the coast at an angle, they can produce what are known as “edge waves,” which propagate parallel to the coast.
		The MISR imagery provides measurements of the location and timing of the breaking waves, their angle relative to the shoreline, and their speed of propagation, which is estimated from these data to be around 30 kilometers per hour.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16798 (663 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the Waves is Danish writer and director Lars von Trier's first English language film.
		Breaking the Waves comes across as a glorious paean to the mighty power of love.
		In addition to its poignant message about sacrificial love, Breaking the Waves reveals the stark contrast between the repression of some types of communal religion and the buoyancy of individual spirituality.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_4673.html (349 words)

	Lars Von Trier (Breaking The Waves)
		But such moments (designed to "expose a greater banality") are pauses in an otherwise harrowing and realistic tale about a woman driven to self-destruction by her passion for her paralysed husband.
		If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.
		'Breaking the Waves' is undeniably "A film by Lars von Trier." It's been said that, "The decline of Art begins with the signature." That is, a work of art will always be judged in relation to its creator.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/LVT01.HTM (3174 words)

	Audrey / Asian Women's Magazine - Features
		It was the perfect herald for a girl who would one day catch the first waves of the professional women’s surfing world.
		I finally caught a wave!’ and she said, ‘Oh my god, you’ve been in a coma, I didn’t think you were going to make it.’ I really believe surfing saved my life,” she recalls in the film.
		When Sunn passed away in the early days of 1998, more than 3,000 people packed the beach, her friends bringing water and sand from oceans around the world to be scattered on the waves with her ashes.
	www.audreymagazine.com /april2004/features04.asp (1712 words)

	Waves breaking
		In his Waves breaking 1881 he followed the example of Courbet’s marines in which the artist had faced the sea directly and simply divided his painting horizontally into sea and sky — but Monet’s painting is radically different.
		Courbet emphasised the substance of the sea — its luminosity, its vast recession — while in his paintings of breaking waves, he depicted, the glassy depths of a rearing wave and its break into foam.
		Monet’s painting is rather disconcerting, consisting of row upon row of loose, curved strokes, painted with thick, pastey paint, with only a strip of flatter brushstrokes to give a sense of the horizontal stretch of the sea.
	www.nga.gov.au /MonetJapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W661 (397 words)

	Breaking the Waves
		isky does not begin to describe "Breaking the Waves," the raw, crazy tour-de-force that is the frenzied highlight of the New York Film Festival this year.
		Indeed, audiences for "Breaking the Waves" can be expected to spend an unusually long time studying the closing credits, regaining their composure after having been put through von Trier's wringer.
		And as "Breaking the Waves" requires Bess to make her leap of faith, it demands one from the audience, too.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/waves-film-review.html (962 words)

	Breaking Waves Tutorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most important thing to know is that the wave function is based on the water depth and not on the world position.
		The "Wave Displacement" function determines how the water surface height is modified by the waves.
		The "Wave Scatter" function controls the light scatering on the water surface along the wave.
	www.silicon-peace.com /sp_pages/MojoWorld/BreakWaves (174 words)

	Breaking the Waves
		The wedding reception is an interesting contrast between the celebration that we expect to go with a wedding, and the dour, lifelessness of the church folk.
		In a culture in which a shameful death - as in a 1st century crucifixion - has little meaning, he found a way to portray an innocent, intentionally enduring suffering and death, in order to save the one she loves.
		Father Andrew M Greeley's "Homily" for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (March 9, 1997) draws from Lars Von Triers Cannes prize winning film "Breaking the Waves" in connection with John 3:14-21.
	www.textweek.com /movies/breaking_the_waves.htm (415 words)

	BREAKING THE WAVES / Surrounded by fog and wary of the rough waters near shore, the three kayakers head farther out to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BREAKING THE WAVES / Surrounded by fog and wary of the rough waters near shore, the three kayakers head farther out to sea -- and encounter birds, dolphins and big swells before Crescent City
		Four- to six-foot-high swells were occasionally building up and breaking as waves all the way across the bar.
		Paddling through rock gardens, awash with small wind waves, was a delight compared with what we had just been through.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/09/MNGH1EKFP01.DTL (1350 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Breaking the Waves (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		``Breaking the Waves'' is emotionally and spiritually challenging, hammering at conventional morality with the belief that God not only sees all, but understands a great deal more than we give Him credit for.
		He is a tall, gentle man with a warm smile, and lets her flail away before embracing her in his big arms.
		I've always been stupid, but I'm good at this.'' ``Breaking the Waves'' was written and directed by Lars von Trier, from Denmark, who makes us wonder what kinds of operas Nietzsche might have written.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961129/REVIEWS/611290302/1023 (885 words)

	Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Set in the early 1970's amid a small, tightly-knit community on the remote north coast of Scotland, BREAKING THE WAVES tells the story of Bess, a young, naive girl, and her profound experience of love.
		Bess, who has lived her life protected by her family -- her mother, grandfather and recently widowed sister-in law, Dodo -- within the confined world of strict Calvinism, falls in love with Jan, a stalwart oil-rig worker and man of the world.
		The return is sooner than expected: an explosion on the rig seriously injures Jan and suffering potentially fatal brain damage and total paralysis, he is flown back to the hospital.
	www.wviff.org /fall97/waves.htm (167 words)

	Breaking The Waves
		Story: Early on in "Breaking the Waves", it becomes clear that Bess has a special relationship with God - she speaks to him out loud in a childish voice, and answers herself (as God) in a gruff, adult voice.
		She spirals deeper and deeper into degradation, putting herself through dangerous and humiliating experiences, all because of her true love for Jan. In a heartbreaking ending she is vindicated, with a climax of incredible power and beauty.
		Lars von Trier directed "Breaking the Waves" with an intention of grounding the film in reality, using handheld cameras and natural lighting that give it a documentary feel.
	dvdcorner.net /html/breakwaves.html (770 words)

	Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danish director Lars von Trier’s BREAKING THE WAVES is a sweeping romantic fable that is photographed like a low-budget documentary, resulting in a strikingly original motion picture from one of contemporary cinema’s most distinct visionaries.
		Obeying his wish, she begins to see that her actions are restoring Jan’s health, sparking her into committing one reckless final sacrifice.
		Watson delivers one of the most stunningly naked screen debuts in screen history, filling BREAKING THE WAVES with an intensity that is tragic, yet somehow hopeful.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/breaking_the_waves/about.php (706 words)

	Breaking the Waves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Breaking the Waves has no pretty people or happy ending
		European art cinema darling Lars von Trier's challenging new film Breaking the Waves builds on two blatantly unfashionable ideas: true love and faith.
		Atmospheric, self-consciously artsy and two and a half hours long, Breaking the Waves demands an emotional commitment from its audience.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/032097/film2.html (343 words)

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