Friday | March 26, 2004 9:00 pm

Sunday | March 28, 2004 7:00 pm

Breaking the Waves

Screening on Film

Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge.
Denmark/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Norway, 1996, 35mm, color, 159 min.

In a remote northern Scottish village in the early 1970s, Bess (Watson), a young and trusting girl who is “not quite right in the head,” meets resistance from her close-knit community for her decision to marry a North-Sea oil-rig worker. A heart-wrenching study of faith, innocence, cruelty, and the crushing mores of religion, Breaking the Waves received the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and launched the career of Emily Watson, who delivers an extraordinary debut performance.

March 1 – 31, 2004

From Dogme to Dogville.
The Films of Lars von Trier

August 2–10, 2002

Treasures from the Harvard Film Archive: Actors U–Z

January 17–March 2

The Reincarnations of Delphine Seyrig

January 27–February 9

Rosine Mbakam, 2025 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

February 1–9

The Illusory Tableaux of Georges Méliès

February 3–16

Activism and Post-Activism. Korean Documentary Cinema, 1981-2022

February 7–14

Fables of the Reconstruction. Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

February 21–March 10

Ben Rivers, Back to the Land

February 22–April 5

Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque

February 22

Make Way for Tomorrow. Carson Lund’s Eephus

February 23–24

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue