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
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:09-03-2007
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
Reviews for After The Wedding
Top CriticA superb performance by Mads Mikkelsen and an engaging, sharply written script.
03/08/07
The storyline is a highly melodramatic, but some solid performances and the relentless intimacy of the camerawork give this a Dogme sense of significance.
03/08/07
Top CriticAs with many of Bier's films, a certain suspension of disbelief is necessary: but she has a distinctive and engaging storytelling style.
03/10/07
Top CriticThis mightn't be as fun as a Big Fat Greek Wedding, but there's at least as many broken plates afterwards...
03/06/07
Top CriticAt 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.
03/08/07
Top CriticEvidently, 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
A deceptively unadorned movie that ends in huge, untidy and enormously satisfying emotions.
03/30/07
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05/05/07
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
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
May 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
"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
Top CriticIf what Bier and veteran co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen created is melodrama, then so is the stuff of life.
04/13/07
In my book it's high camp -- a thrill ride for emotion junkies.
04/13/07
It's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.
10/20/07
Just 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
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
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