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However, there is a dark secret at the heart of this relationship, throwing Peterson into disarray. This elegant and Academy-Award-nominated Danish film has it all: fantastic cast, great direction, and a few special ingredients that turn a good drama into a thrilling one!
- Anne Fletting
- Female Director, Susanne Bier
After The Wedding, compared to its 2006 Danish original with Mads Mikklesen, is a jagged little pill of decaffeinated intentions.
Another powerful Danish drama from a country that’s directors know how to perfectly heighten stakes and emotion in the most natural of premises. Susanne Bier expertly controls the camera with harsh close ups of eyes, hands and bodily movements to create visual insights into the characters thoughts and emotions even when they aren’t speaking.
In After the Wedding, the tragedy is not so brutally evident, at least not initially. It reveals itself slowly, in tiny and often mystifying ripples, through cool shades and shaky camerawork that hints at muted undercurrents. But the impact is no less poignant.
2007 S&P Award Winner. After the Wedding. Directed by Susan Bier. A substantive film about an idealistic Danish aid worker who is forced to stretch his own capacities for love and compassion. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
Mar 30, 2007 · The marriage ceremony in Danish director Susanne Bier’s haunting After the Wedding, penned by frequent collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen and one of this year’s five nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, greatly alters more lives than those of the young heiress bride, Anna (Stine Fischer Christensen), and her betrothed.
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After the Wedding (Denmark/Sweden, 2006) Over the past 15 years with Lars von Trier as its poster boy, Danish cinema has gained an international reputation as cynical and severe. The humor is grim, the drama is grimmer, and the production values are ascetic.
