Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Shalaw Fatah This is how stories are told, in the simplest way possible. No need for psychopaths or evil people, often you just need a couple of ordinary people with their not-deliberate preconveived notions of statue differences: wealthy vs charitable, businessman vs aid worker and such. Two ordinary men are entangled in what once was a love-triangle. One of them became a businessman and the other a charitable worker. They went on through their lives, but destiny brought them together, and things unfold. 1. Everything is simple in this movie, cinematography, script, etc. 2. The story is brilliantly unraveled, and the acting is even better. 3. The story's issue arises with non-deliberate acts like love and relationships, but the flavour is how the characters perceive each other which is based on their worldviews. 4. The story is developed in a way where you keep up changing your view of the characters and the plot, a lot of minor and major twists make you absolutely attached to the movie.

nathanleebush I'm shocked by the high user and critic ratings for this film. Every choice was confused. The hyper kinetic camera movement with documentary stylings and no lighting like a Dogme 95 film had no relationship to the Days of Our Lives plot twists and overwrought acting and dialogue. I think this got the over-inflated "international rating," where critics elevate mediocre foreign films because, let's be honest, how many great movies are coming out of Denmark these days? The melodrama was effective, in that it wrought emotion, but each plot twist felt arbitrary and absurd, and the central motivation of the principal figure didn't make sense. Certain scenes felt totally out of place, and should have been cut. And bookending the film in India made about zero sense, as very little of the film's story took place there.

SnoopyStyle Jacob Pederson (Mads Mikkelsen) does charity work in a Bombay orphanage. They receive an offer for funding from rich Jörgen Lennart Hansson but he requests to meet Jacob. Jacob reluctantly returns to Denmark. Jörgen's daughter Anna is getting married. He is shocked to see Jörgen's wife Helene who happens to be his love some twenty years ago. Is Anna Jacob's daughter? He was a drunk and cheated on Helene back in the day.The look is naturalistic and the acting is rich. Mads is in top form. The premise sets up for a whirlwind of melodrama. Instead, it's a bit more sensitive. I actually could do with a tighter, faster, and wilder melodrama but this will work too. The acting is superb all around. The twists are great.

Alex Deleon AFTER THE WEDDING (Efter Brylluppet), Denmark, 2006. Viewed at 2006 Rome film festival.image1.jpegSusanne Bier's Danish drama, "After The Wedding" (Efter Brylluppet) is another milestone in the filmography of one of Europes top female directors and also one of Europes best actors, both Danes. Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) an ex-pat Dane works in India taking care of homeless orphans. He has a particularly close relationship with a boy Pramod (age 8). His Indian overseer receives an offer from Copenhagen for big money to assist the project. This will require the mysterious ex-pat to return to Kbh after a long absence of many years to negotiate the transaction. He goes, very reluctantly, but not before solemnly promising the boy that he will be back for his birthday, only eight day away. In Copenhagen he meets the millionaire Jorgen (Rolf Lassgaard) who invites him to his daughter's wedding party. It turns out that Jorgen's current wife, Helene, (Sidse Babett- Knudsen) is an ex-flame of Jacob's. At the wedding party the young bride announces to the jolting discomfort of all that Jorgen is not her real, genetic father. It now turns out that she is actually the offspring of Jacob and Helen's affair many years before. This is most disturbing to Jacob who did not know of the existence of this now full-grown daughter, Anna (Stine Fischer Christensen), who has been raised by Jorgen as his own -- not to mention the daughter herself, who feels betrayed by everybody. This leads to severe complications, confrontations and soul searching by all involved. Jorgen, nevertheless, offers Jacob the sky -- and a fund in perpetuity in his name and that of Anna, his new found daughter. One condition: Jacob must remain in Denmark and not go back to India. Jacob is highly suspicious of the Millionaire's motives for all this unexplained and seemingly paradoxical generosity. The kicker is that Jorgen is dying but has revealed this to no one until now. What should Jacob do? -- accept the offer which would save all his young Indian charges from a life of depravation on the streets, or turn the offer down and go back to Bombay where he promised Pramod to be back in time for his birthday. Jorgen dies after a heart-wrenching last scene with the guilt feelings beset wife. Sob-sob. Funeral.Jacob back in India offers to take Pramod back to Denmark where he would lead a life of luxury. The kid refuses. He wants to stay with the people he knows best. Sob-sob. This is a very high-style sob-story that is also very depressing but, indisputably, an "auteur film" all the way. Susan Bier is one of the foremost female director's at work in Europe today and makes glossy, high concept, slick psychological studies with excellent actors. I know this was a very good film but I was in so much pain watching it that I couldn't wait for it to be over. Alex in the press room, Rome. Tomorrow, the arrival of El Grande from Tribeca, Roberto De Niro -- (Are you tawkin na ME! )