A powerfully moving drama that's well worth seeing.
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01/09/03
Open Hearts (2003)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:53
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Pulsing with honesty, this film lays bare the rawness of human emotion with a story made all the more believable thanks to its gritty, low-budget approach.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: In Susanne Bier's achingly tender drama, filmed according to the tenets of the Dogme 95 collective, the fates of two couples are forever altered in the blink of an eye. Joachim (Nicolaj Lie Kaas)... [More]
Starring: Sonja Richter, Nicolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen
Director: Susanne Bier
Reviews for Open Hearts
Acutely observed and beautifully written.
03/23/03
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04/20/03
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01/26/06
Top CriticYour wife ran over a guy, made him a paraplegic and now you're sleeping with his fiancee. You got a problem with that?
03/14/03
Director Susanne Bier and co-writer Anders Thomas Jensen draw attention away from the famous Dogme gimmick... and pull us into a surprisingly powerful emotional snafu.
04/01/03
However schematic, the movie percolates with immediacy and genuine warmth.
02/19/03
Simply deliciously top-heavy with pain, bitterness, release, and fervor --- and pregnant with unabashed authenticity.
03/25/03
... benefits from the best qualities of Dogme... while avoiding the movement's tendency to dwell on the worst impulses of human behavior.
03/06/03
the ardent, unguarded performances that drive Open Hearts...have a resonant accumulative tone of authentic poignancy that drowns out the picture's shortcomings.
03/28/03
Open Hearts is far from inaccessible, but it demands a higher level of concentration than most big-budget movies do. The drama exists in a glance or a nod, or in a slight hesitation in speech.
04/04/03
A fine understanding of human motivation makes for an absorbing drama laced with a brief dose of humor and a steady drip of irony.
02/16/03
Open Hearts is a poignant and well-acted Danish drama that explores the idea that the strangers we meet can alter our lives in ways beyond our wildest imagining.It hits the mark with its many layered depiction of love and loss.
02/21/03
Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.
03/07/03
A startlingly real film that packs remarkable emotional power, and gives a glimpse of the kind of genuine human depth that the Dogme decree was meant to tap into.
03/01/03
The mysterious machinations of the human heart remain the most compelling entertainment and, ultimately, the most rewarding.
02/27/03
the best Dogme film to date
03/08/03
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