Product: After The Wedding (Despues De La Boda) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
packs a wallop, but needed a different director
Interesting example of a film with a great plot, a great script, terrific acting . . . and yet terrible direction.I was only able to get through this film the second time round because of the director's exasperating obtrusiveness (e.g., hundreds of gratuitous CUs), but boy does it pack a punch, if you can look past that. By the end of the film, the characters have been raked through the coals and the viewer feels he has gone on a meaningful, harrowing journey right along with them. This was also a critics' favorite in the year it appeared.The plot concerns a man who attends a wedding only to find out that the bride is a daughter he hadn't even known he had.And as if the director's cold yet pretentious style isn't enough, you should in addition bring a barf bag: the camera jerks around unnecessarily for two hours and fifteen minutes without relief.