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After The Wedding (2007)

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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

Genre: Foreign Films

US Box Office: $1,504,179

Synopsis: Danish director Susanne Bier continues her tradition of finely crafted emotional films with this Oscar-nominated drama. In AFTER THE WEDDING, a businessman (Rolf Lassgard) offers to make a huge... Danish director Susanne Bier continues her tradition of finely crafted emotional films with this Oscar-nominated drama. In AFTER THE WEDDING, a businessman (Rolf Lassgard) offers to make a huge donation to an Indian orphanage. Unfortunately he makes some unreasonable demands on the owner of the orphanage (CASINO ROYALE's Mads Mikkelsen), including a bizarre request to return to his native Denmark to participate in a wedding. Once he arrives, he realizes that he is caught in the middle of an event that is far more than it appears. Biers's film was so highly praised that it led to her making her English-language film debut, the Halle Berry film THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE. [More]

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgard, Mona Malm

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgard, Mona Malm, Christen Tafdrup, Stine Fischer, Nels Anders Thorn

Director: Susanne Bier

Director: Susanne Bier
Screenwriter: Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Gillian Berrie
Composer: Johan Soderqvist
Studio: IFC Films

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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

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
08/11/07
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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.

Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | comment Comment
08/21/08
Heather Huntington
Heather Huntington
ReelzChannel.com

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

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
08/20/08
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

Un buen ejemplo de cómo se puede hacer una película madura y atrapante con el mismo argumento base de una telenovela mexicana.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
03/19/08
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

It's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
10/20/07
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/20/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/11/07
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
07/10/07
Chris Kaltenbach
Chris Kaltenbach
Baltimore Sun

Uma obra de intensa carga emocional.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
06/16/07
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
06/02/07
Josh Rosenblatt
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle

Lovely, dense and surprising.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
05/31/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

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.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
05/31/07
John Thomason
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly

Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/30/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

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.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
05/28/07
Jonathan F. Richards
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com

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.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
05/25/07
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
05/23/07
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

After the Wedding's anguished portrait of family, charity, and mortality peels back layers in the characters that defy their easy categorization.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
05/22/07
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

After the Wedding has a dignity of purpose that is made to feel authentic by the performances.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
05/19/07
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

...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.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
05/18/07
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
05/14/07
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
 
 
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