Movie Review

After the Wedding (2007)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Limited Release: Mar 30, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 120 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Sidse Babett Knudsen and Mads Mikkelsen

MADS ABOUT YOU Bet on Casino Royale\'s Mikkelsen to give an ace performance in Foreign Language Film nominee After the...
MADS ABOUT YOU Bet on Casino Royale's Mikkelsen to give an ace performance in Foreign Language Film nominee After the Wedding

Masculine complexity is what Mads Mikkelsen was famous for long before he wept blood in Casino Royale. In After the Wedding, he plays a Danish orphanage worker in India, summoned home to receive a large donation — with considerable strings — from a benefactor (Rolf Lassgard) married to a beauty (Sidse Babett Knudsen) with a complicated past. Talented filmmaker Susanne Bier (Brothers), armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie, a 2006 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Originally posted Mar 28, 2007 Published in issue #928 Apr 06, 2007 Order article reprints
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