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What transpires after is not unlike a car crash itself: gut-wrenching to watch, impossible to look away from. Although the film’s premise toes the line of melodrama, Susanne Bier handles the characters with extraordinary care. Elsker dig for evigt (Open Hearts) boasts incredible performances from its core cast of four, with Mads Mikkelsen and ...
- Anders Nyborg
- Female Director, Susanne Bier
8/10. A sober tragedy about love and guilt. chanrion_d 20 March 2003. This movie has a sober sense of tragic : It shows how life is fragile and uncontrollable, whether it is a young couple passionately in love hit by a terrible accident or a double-kid mature couple whose husband will be unfaithful to his wife.
Open Hearts: Directed by Susanne Bier. With Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen. A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
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- Drama, Romance
- Susanne Bier
- 2002-09-06
Denmark. Language. Danish. Open Hearts (Danish: Elsker dig for evigt), is a 2002 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier using the minimalist filmmaking techniques of the Dogme 95 manifesto. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter and Paprika Steen. Also referred to as Dogme #28, Open Hearts relates the story of two couples ...
May 7, 2013 · It's a schematic melodrama on paper, but the film's achievement, carried through from an intrepid screenplay to the consummate performances, lies in the conviction of its characterisation ...
Feb 21, 2003 · Open Hearts Reviews - Metacritic. 2003. R. Newmarket Films. 1 h 53 m. Summary Adhering to the guidelines of the celebrated Dogme 95 manifesto, this film focuses on a young engaged couple in Copenhagen who finds their relationship changed forever when the man is hit by a car and paralyzed. Drama.
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Overview. Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her. Susanne Bier.
