Acutely observed and beautifully written.
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03/23/03
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
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12/30/06
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04/08/03
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04/20/03
Top CriticA powerfully moving drama that's well worth seeing.
01/09/03
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04/05/03
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01/26/06
Top CriticOpen Hearts is a heart-wrenching soap opera that even The Young and the Restless can't compete with.
03/21/03
A small-scale domestic drama with large-scale feeling.
04/27/03
Open Hearts' four lead characters (subtly, wonderfully played) shatter, then piece themselves back together before our eyes.
03/23/03
Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events.
03/07/03
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07/02/03
Top CriticReminds me of the best of Bergman’s chamber dramas. Nerves are exposed, hearts opened and emotions bared, all under Bier’s X-ray cameras.
02/09/04
Sans set lamps, Bier faces the responsibility of lighting her characters from the inside, so to speak, and she does a remarkable job doing so.
01/19/03
An emotionally honest character piece that avoids moralizing or offering soggy excuses.
03/20/03
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
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
Written and acted with intelligence, sensitivity, and insight
02/28/03
It crackles with chemistry that feels both spontaneous and carefully layered, and, like the best Dogma entries, it takes a potentially sudsy premise and lays it bare until all that's left is the humanity.
03/20/03
Your 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
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