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AFTER THE WEDDING Send This Review to a Friend
Susanne Bier’s Danish film “After the Wedding,” a recent nominee for the best foreign language film Oscar, starts in Mombai, India. Mads Mikkelsen as Jacob is working to help the impoverished. The orphanage he operates is in dire need of funds, and after 20-yeas of being away he returns to Denmark to meet with a potential benefactor, the very rich businessman Jorgan (Rolf Lassgard), whose daughter is about to be married to one of his employees. It turns out that Jacob knows Jorgan’s wife, Helene ( Sidse Babett Knudsen) from the past.
Although everything looks calm at first, Bier’s film, written by Anders Thomas Jensen based on a story by Bier and Jensen, will slowly become more complicated than you would expect, and when the layers begin peeling away, high drama waits the participants, and us.
The skill with which all unravels, and with which a dire situation is revealed, makes the film absorbing and intriguing. There is a major catch attached to Jacob receiving the money he needs, and the future depends on how all will be resolved.
The acting is at top level and “After the Wedding” sneaks up on us with its quiet strength and intricate involvements. An IFC Films release.
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