After the Wedding

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After the Wedding

R,

2006,

1h 55m,

Drama

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87%

102 Reviews

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87%

50,000+ Ratings

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87%

Tomatometer

102 Reviews

87%

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50,000+ Ratings

Jacob Petersen (Mads Mikkelsen) dedicates his life to helping street children in India, and when the orphanage he leads may be closed, he receives an interesting offer. A businessman will give him $4 million -- with conditions. Jacob must return to Denmark and take part in the wedding of the man's daughter; the event is a crucial meeting of past and future, throwing Jacob into the most-intense dilemma of his life.

Critics Consensus

The cast brings After the Wedding's melodramatic script to life, creating a movie that is emotionally raw and satisfying.

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Joumane Chahine

Film Comment Magazine

Nov 19, 2013

There's nothing quite as devastating as tragedy treated with sharp and precise Northern European restraint.

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Josh Rosenblatt

Austin Chronicle

Jun 2, 2007

3.5/5

Bier [is] the latest in a long line of filmmakers who have mastered the art of making movies about people we can all thank God we're not.

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

May 28, 2007

One of the more interesting themes of this movie is the question of which is more important to a cause, the man or the money.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Nov 6, 2019

Reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman with its substantive style, AFTER THE WEDDING provides a focused perspective of life.

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Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com

Aug 21, 2008

8/10

As a critic, I don't always have the luxury of choosing everything I see. And a lucky thing, too, because director Susanne Bier's After the Wedding is making a strong argument that my instincts about Danish cinema are wrong wrong wrong.

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Jean-François Vandeuren

Panorama

Aug 20, 2008

7/10

Une oeuvre aussi sincère que les intentions de ses protagonistes qui épate par l'efficacité d'une mise en scènes dont les rouages se veulent entièrement au service du discours

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Hagrid S

Jul 16, 2017

Susanne Bier employs efficaciously extreme facial close-ups to examine the moral conflicts of a revised family and the hard decisions its members made in her immensely acted and delicately written drama that is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006.

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Harry R

Feb 12, 2017

Very soapy in plot lines. Quite a decent drama tho.

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Synopsis

Jacob Petersen (Mads Mikkelsen) dedicates his life to helping street children in India, and when the orphanage he leads may be closed, he receives an interesting offer. A businessman will give him $4 million -- with conditions. Jacob must return to Denmark and take part in the wedding of the man's daughter; the event is a crucial meeting of past and future, throwing Jacob into the most-intense dilemma of his life.

Director: Susanne Bier
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Production Co: Zentropa Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Language|A Scene of Sexuality)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Danish
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 2007
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 19, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.5M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD

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