Breaking the Waves Sunday, April 6, 2025 2 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

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Introduced by Randee Ramsey, executive director, Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP)

“Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson is a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.” —Janus Films 

Presented in association with Houston Grand Opera’s production of “Breaking the Waves.” The award-winning, boundary-pushing contemporary opera from Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek runs April 19–May 4. Visit houstongrandopera.org/on-stage/breaking-the-waves for the schedule and tickets.

For mature audiences

Tickets

• $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)

Plan Your Visit

• This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building.
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This 35mm print is courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.