Product: After The Wedding (Despues De La Boda) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
The upside of soap opera
Principles, honor, the poor and the rich, out-of-wedlock children, love affairs. The ingredients of a stupid, banal soap opera are all there.But to all this you have to add great direction (especially beautiful the many close-ups) and masterful and touching acting. I found the performances of Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Stine Fischer Christensen particularly compelling. All of them play their parts as if they were truly living their lives. They behave as real people could behave in such stressful and unsettling circumstances as the ones depicted in this movie. Moral issues are dealt without easy judgments, and different viewers will likely read the characters and their choices in different ways.A very good movie that will make you think and feel, artfully directed, and wonderfully acted. My congratulations to all involved.