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
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 poignant and intimate drama about revelations that have life-changing impact, Bier's film proves that the rude health of Danish cinema continues unabated.
03/08/07
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 CriticThe 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 CriticA superb performance by Mads Mikkelsen and an engaging, sharply written script.
03/08/07
This 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 CriticAs a critic, I don't always have the luxury of choosing everything I see. And a lucky thing, too, because director Susanne Bier's After the Wedding is making a strong argument that my instincts about Danish cinema are wrong wrong wrong.
08/21/08
Une oeuvre aussi sincère que les intentions de ses protagonistes qui épate par l'efficacité d'une mise en scènes dont les rouages se veulent entièrement au service du discours
08/20/08
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
It's a treat when a movie offers characters this rich and layered.
10/20/07
One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007.
09/20/07
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
08/11/07
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.
08/11/07
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
Uma obra de intensa carga emocional.
06/16/07
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.
06/02/07
Lovely, dense and surprising.
05/31/07
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.
05/31/07
Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong.
05/30/07
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.
05/28/07
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