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.
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03/29/07
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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.
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
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Reviews for After The Wedding
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.
04/25/07
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
04/13/07
Sounds like a soap opera. But Danish director Susanne Bier builds a high-minded melodrama from this plot material.
04/20/07
If what Bier and veteran co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen created is melodrama, then so is the stuff of life.
04/13/07
It's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.
10/20/07
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
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.
04/27/07
Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.
05/30/07
...a powerful drama about secrets... At times it threatens to veer into soap opera, but the filmmakers and actors keep it true.
05/12/07
A deeply intimate tale of regret and hope, with characters that will linger in your thoughts.
04/24/07
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
04/24/07
Every time you think you are going to hit a cliche, the film turns on it.
03/29/07
The film brings us face to face with the movie's starkest truth: It's not whether or not we prevail over the inevitable setbacks in life, but who we connect with along the way.
04/21/07
Top CriticAfter the Wedding has a dignity of purpose that is made to feel authentic by the performances.
05/19/07
The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast.
02/05/07
Yes, they throw more than rice at this Wedding, but it's all in service of an astutely observed and sometimes shattering human drama.
05/10/07
Top CriticThe characters may suffer once the bride walks down the aisle, but [director] Bier, [writer] Jensen and their first-rate cast work together like a match made in heaven.
03/30/07
This Oscar-nominated melodrama again shows Bier's ability to turn simple character drama into gripping, almost operatic filmmaking, but unlike her last marvelous film Brothers, here, she juggles too many story threads to offer a similar emotional wallop
03/04/07
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
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