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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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2007 Limited
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... [More]
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgard, Mona Malm
Director: Susanne Bier
Evidently, this bloated piece of Oscar-nominated nonsense was a big hit in Denmark, which makes me think there’s a glittering future in that otherwise discriminating country for several seasons of Days of Our Lives.
A deceptively unadorned movie that ends in huge, untidy and enormously satisfying emotions.
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This melodrama about a miserable Good Samaritan (Mads Mikkelsen) staring down a difficult (and heroically contrived) ethical dilemma gets soapier -- and dopier -- as it goes along.
What feels at first like a quiet, straightforward picture builds into one of the richest and most satisfying of the year so far, in any genre or any language.
Top CriticMay be the strangest and most surprising film you’ll see this year, in that its character development runs counter to the expectations aroused by its narrative sequencing.
Top Critic"After the Wedding" has the makings of a melodramatic soap opera were it not in the hands of a seasoned director like Susanne Bier
Sounds like a soap opera. But Danish director Susanne Bier builds a high-minded melodrama from this plot material.
If what Bier and veteran co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen created is melodrama, then so is the stuff of life.
In my book it's high camp -- a thrill ride for emotion junkies.
Top CriticIt's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.
Just when we start to find these people interesting and credible, the plot tosses us something we don't believe for a minute.
Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama.
It's a traumatic journey peeling away those layers of secrecy, repression and regret, but the actors are equal to those hyper-emotional demands. After the Wedding is a story told with unsparing honesty and skill.
Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.
...a powerful drama about secrets... At times it threatens to veer into soap opera, but the filmmakers and actors keep it true.
A deeply intimate tale of regret and hope, with characters that will linger in your thoughts.
Bier’s insistence on adding even more melodramatics into the mix feels like a mistake.
Director Susanne Bier is obviously fond of extreme close-ups (people smoking, people drinking, people licking their lips), especially focusing the camera on the actors' eyeballs too many times to count. I can overlook this annoying little technique becaus
Every time you think you are going to hit a cliche, the film turns on it.
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