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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
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.
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.
A rare treat --- don't miss it!
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
A deeply intimate tale of regret and hope, with characters that will linger in your thoughts.
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.
Who'd have thought a Danish soap opera would be as bad as an American one?
[Director] Bier's careful touch and the skill of the cast make After the Wedding an emotional and often lovely film. It's mostly a series of two-person scenes, delicately filled in with character details.
There are no guarantees with this sort of thing, but it really is possible that one or two scenes in After the Wedding will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Sounds like a soap opera. But Danish director Susanne Bier builds a high-minded melodrama from this plot material.
Top CriticAs the premise might suggest, Jensen's dramatic structure is so visible this sometimes seems like a late Rod Serling teleplay, but Bier has proved highly adept at merging conventional drama with the immediacy of the Dogma 95 movement.
For once, the bigger the emotion, the truer the moviegoing experience.
Life’s a mess, it says, but you can’t sweep up the dirt until you’ve taken a good, hard look at it.
In less accomplished hands might have been dismissed as mawkish and contrived, but...comes across as surprisingly honest and affecting.
...star Mads Mikkelsen is becoming internationally known and while he delivers another fine performance here it is Rolf Lassgård who proves the revelation as the billionaire with a huge hidden agenda.
Even when [Bier's] movie ventures in deepest contrivance it pulls you along like a willing puppy on a gently tugged leash.
A serious adult drama that, in the wrong hands, would have certainly been a cloying mess. Instead, it's a riveting character study/soap opera.
If what Bier and veteran co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen created is melodrama, then so is the stuff of life.
In my book it's high camp -- a thrill ride for emotion junkies.
Mikkelsen, Lassgard, Knudsen and Christensen seem to burrow into the deepest parts of their hearts and souls to turn the stuff of soap opera into a search for the real self.
April 26, 2007:
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