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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
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.
09/23/06
In my book it's high camp -- a thrill ride for emotion junkies.
04/13/07
Top CriticJust when we start to find these people interesting and credible, the plot tosses us something we don't believe for a minute.
04/27/07
Bier’s insistence on adding even more melodramatics into the mix feels like a mistake.
03/31/07
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.
03/29/07
Crisply written and acted soap opera from Susanne Bier, but vague in its intentions.
03/29/07
Top CriticI hereby declare a moratorium on any such filmmakers entering India in hopes of preventing any further culturally condescending journeys into the white man's heart of darkness.
03/13/07
Who'd have thought a Danish soap opera would be as bad as an American one?
04/21/07
[The] handheld, digital camerawork provides an ultra-realistic, immediate feel, but also highlights the film's cautious, dramatic sidestepping.
04/12/07
At two hours, After the Wedding stretches out family flux too thinly and waits too long to reveal the final, devastating secret that we already know.
09/23/06
Top CriticAfter The Wedding could be the cinematic equivalent of a Coldplay song. And while that isn't necessarily a slam, it isn't a recommendation either.
03/31/07
Dark secrets eat away from within, but after 120 minutes of self-loathing this soapy tale fails to engage with either genuine mystery or genuine reconciliation.
03/30/07
Script takes one melodramatic turn too many, ultimately pushing the film’s characters around like so many pieces on a chessboard. What begins so promisingly ends on a decidedly soapy note.
03/30/07
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.
03/29/07
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
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