Breaking the waves

[Paul Murphy]

Juan Martinez writes:

>Now that a few movies have been mentioned, I'll go ahead and try to
>start a discusion about Lars Von Trier's "Breaking the Waves" which just
>started a couple of weeks ago here in Madrid.  I am not sure I can make
>a significant connection to Pynchon, but it addresses a question that we
>discussed here a few days ago: the relation between this world and the
>spiritual world.  The way it is filmed and edited is also very
>interesting, and unconventional.  His previous movie, "Europa", was
>mentioned as Pynchonesque a few years ago on this list (although this
>doesn't mean much.)

Actually, von Trier's most recent one (before _Breaking the Waves_) was his
4 hour TV-movie _The Kingdom_, which is absolutely brilliant a-and
Pynchonesque, especially all of the parapsychology bits.

I'll be seeing the new one soon (it just opened here)...

Cheers,
Paul