LARS VON TRIER COLLECTION

Five-disc set includes: Breaking The Waves (1996)A powerful film debut by Emily Watson fuels writer/director Lars Von Trier's unusual, passionate drama. Bess McNeill (Watson), a naive and pious girl from a remote Scottish village, is happy after marrying virile oil rig worker Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsg?rd), but when an accident leaves him paralyzed, he tells her she can "aid his recovery" by having sexual encounters with strangers and describing them to him. With Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. 152 min. C/Rtg: R Antichrist (2009)Outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg anchor writer/director Lars Von Trier's dark and disturbing psychodrama about a couple consumed with grief after their infant son accidentally falls to his death while they make love. Travelling to a cabin in the woods in an effort to heal, Dafoe and Gainsbourg embark on a terrifying emotional journey fraught with violent sexuality and gruesome encounters with the natural world that surrounds them. 108 min. BW&C/Rtg: NR Melancholia (2011)Sci-fi-infused allegory from director Lars Von Trier follows the toils of a chronically depressed young woman (Kirsten Dunst) whose frailties make a fiasco of the elaborate wedding party thrown for her by her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland), as a planet with a decaying orbit makes an inexorable path toward the Earth. Alexander Skarsg?rd, Stellan Skarsg?rd, John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling co-star. 135 min. C/Rtg: R Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)Upon finding a battered woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) left for dead in an alleyway, a kindly intellectual (Stellan Skarsg?rd) brings her to his apartment for nursing. His inquiry into what happened brings her to recount stunning episodes from a lifetime vigorously spent in unrepentant erotic experimentation. The opening half of Lars von Trier's controversially explicit opus co-stars Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, and Connie Nielsen. 117 min. C/Rtg: NR Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) continues to recount her harrowing sexual-life odyssey in the concluding half of Lars von Trier's powerful effort. When fulfillment isn't forthcoming from an ordinary domestic existence, Joe plunges headlong into a series of dehumanizing encounters in her relentless search for satisfaction and self. Stellan Skarsg?rd, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe also star. 124 min. C/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free