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03/29/07
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
It's that paradoxical melodrama that point-blank refuses to acknowledge that it's being melodramatic, conveying its scenario with enough intensity, psychological acuity and forceful acting to ignore labels and flat-out overpower audiences.
03/29/07
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
Crisply written and acted soap opera from Susanne Bier, but vague in its intentions.
03/29/07
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
Thanks to a tight script, sharp direction and excellent actors, new film by Danish helmer Susanne Bier manages to be both emotional and engaging.
03/29/07
Top CriticTalented filmmaker Susanne Bier, armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie.
03/28/07
Secrets are revealed. Tears are shed. One revelation leads to the next, but never once does the story seem gratuitous.
03/28/07
For a filmmaker who's so attracted to psychological discomfort, Bier has a disarming affinity with the pleasure principle. In this she's further blessed to have cast the riveting Mikkelsen, who here displays the self-conscious jitter of the young Pacino.
03/27/07
I 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
The film generates such visceral heat, the whole notion of genre becomes irrelevant.
03/09/07
After the Wedding ends up feeling far weightier than it first appears, with its plot contrivances and unlikely coincidences generating such a messy range of emotions, they end up feeling a lot like real life.
03/08/07
This Oscar-nominated melodrama again shows Bier's ability to turn simple character drama into gripping, almost operatic filmmaking, but unlike her last marvelous film Brothers, here, she juggles too many story threads to offer a similar emotional wallop
03/04/07
What could have been a soap soars thanks to a sharp script and magnetic performances.
02/26/07
The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast.
02/05/07
As in any good melodrama, After the Wedding indulges in its share of tears, but it's also surprisingly hopeful.
12/07/06
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
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
Incredibly heart-wrenching, and full of some very, very strong performances
09/16/06
A filmmaker who excels in peeling back those delicate layers of human frailty, Denmark's Susanne Bier returns to Toronto, which premiered her previous two films, with another powerful family portrait.
09/13/06
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