After The Wedding (2007)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 99 Fresh: 86 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus:
The cast brings After the Wedding's melodramatic script to life, creating a movie that is emotionally raw and satisfying.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Theatrical Release: Mar 30, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $1,504,179
Synopsis: A businessman offers to make a huge donation to an Indian orphanage in AFTER THE WEDDING. Unfortunately he makes some unreasonable demands on the owner of the orphanage, including a bizarre request to return to his native Denmark to participate in a wedding.... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgard, Mona Malm, Christen Tafdrup
Director: Susanne Bier
Screenwriter: Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Gillian Berrie
Composer: Johan Soderqvist
Screenwriter: Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Gillian Berrie
Composer: Johan Soderqvist
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As a critic, I don't always have the luxury of choosing everything I see. And a lucky thing, too, because director Susanne Bier's After the Wedding is making a strong argument that my instincts about Danish cinema are wrong wrong wrong.
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08/21/08
Une oeuvre aussi sincère que les intentions de ses protagonistes qui épate par l'efficacité d'une mise en scènes dont les rouages se veulent entièrement au service du discours
08/20/08
Un buen ejemplo de cómo se puede hacer una película madura y atrapante con el mismo argumento base de una telenovela mexicana.
03/19/08
One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007.
09/20/07
After the Wedding is seamless, holding our attention, engaging our emotions and satisfying our cinematic needs with a story of human weakness, strength, heart and the capriciousness of fate
08/11/07
Every scene is kissed with irony, the characters all seem believably flawed, the narrative unfolds with just the right storytelling panache and everything else about the production seems right.
08/11/07
Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama.
07/10/07
Bier [is] the latest in a long line of filmmakers who have mastered the art of making movies about people we can all thank God we’re not.
06/02/07
The portent of [director] Bier’s unyielding vision may turn some viewers off, but she has the extraordinarily moving story to warrant the self-conscious artiness.
05/31/07
Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.
05/30/07
One of the more interesting themes of this movie is the question of which is more important to a cause, the man or the money.
05/28/07
Top Critic
There are certainly some big emotional moments here that vibrate with emotional intensity, but they always stop short of sheer theatrics, and it doesn't feel like any of them are unearned.
05/25/07
A shrewdly constructed narrative and strong lead performances make up for much -- including Bier's irritating penchant for shoving her handheld camera in her cast's faces.
05/23/07
After the Wedding's anguished portrait of family, charity, and mortality peels back layers in the characters that defy their easy categorization.
05/22/07
After the Wedding has a dignity of purpose that is made to feel authentic by the performances.
05/19/07
...a highly entertaining film that manages to be brutally honest about human motivation and the compromises we're willing to make to hold onto the people we love for as long as we can.
05/18/07
The odd cropping of the closeups is Bier's way of acknowleding that the slices of life we see onscreen can't begin to convey the complicated messiness of existence.
05/14/07
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