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After The Wedding

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After The Wedding (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 97 Fresh: 84  Rotten:13 Average Rating: 7.4/10
 
Consensus: The cast brings After the Wedding's melodramatic script to life. The cast brings After the Wedding's melodramatic script to life, creating a movie that is emotionally raw and satisfying. more
 
Rated: 15
Runtime: 2 hrs
Theatrical Release: 09-03-2007
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]
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. [Less]

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

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Oct 7, 2007

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As with many of Bier's films, a certain suspension of disbelief is necessary: but she has a distinctive and engaging storytelling style.

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03/10/07 05:25 AM
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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A poignant and intimate drama about revelations that have life-changing impact, Bier's film proves that the rude health of Danish cinema continues unabated.

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03/08/07 07:34 AM
Jamie Russell
Channel 4 Film
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At heart, Bier is an actor’s director, and it’s the uniformly fine performances she engenders from her cast that make ‘After the Wedding’ as satisfying as it is.

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03/08/07 07:25 AM
Wally Hammond
Time Out
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The storyline is a highly melodramatic, but some solid performances and the relentless intimacy of the camerawork give this a Dogme sense of significance.

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03/08/07 06:34 AM
Patrick Peters
Empire Magazine
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A superb performance by Mads Mikkelsen and an engaging, sharply written script.

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03/08/07 03:18 AM
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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This mightn't be as fun as a Big Fat Greek Wedding, but there's at least as many broken plates afterwards...

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03/06/07 03:18 AM
Stella Papamichael
BBC
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Un buen ejemplo de cómo se puede hacer una película madura y atrapante con el mismo argumento base de una telenovela mexicana.

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03/19/08 11:53 PM
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
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It's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.

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10/20/07 07:13 AM
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007.

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09/20/07 12:47 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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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

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08/11/07 09:00 PM
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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.

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08/11/07 03:40 AM
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Those willing to overlook its emotional grandstanding will find much to admire and even more to think about in this Oscar-nominated Danish drama.

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07/10/07 11:47 AM
Chris Kaltenbach
Baltimore Sun
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Uma obra de intensa carga emocional.

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06/16/07 03:37 AM
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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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.

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06/02/07 03:34 AM
Josh Rosenblatt
Austin Chronicle
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Lovely, dense and surprising.

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05/31/07 02:41 PM
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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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.

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05/31/07 03:15 AM
John Thomason
Orlando Weekly
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Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.

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05/30/07 06:12 PM
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
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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.

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05/28/07 05:59 AM
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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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.

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05/25/07 11:38 AM
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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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.

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05/23/07 07:19 AM
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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(Oscar Watch)-Susanne Bier's AFTER THE WEDDING gets the nod from Denmark for 2006!!!
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(Oscar Watch)-Susanne Bier's AFTER THE WEDDING gets the nod from Denmark for 2006!!!
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(Oscar Watch)-Susanne Bier's AFTER THE WEDDING gets the nod from Denmark for 2006!!!
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(Oscar Watch)-Susanne Bier's AFTER THE WEDDING gets the nod from Denmark for 2006!!!
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