Product: After The Wedding (Despues De La Boda) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
Beautiful story
This film was rightfully nominated for the Academy Award. It is a story of a Danish man living in self exposed exile in India. One is wondering if his charity work in orphanage is his life's calling, or a character's way of punishing oneself for life choices made long ago. As money for the orphanage is dwindling, the benefactor appears offering financial help. But like every charity, this one has a catch too. Scenes from having main character Jacob return from Indian subcontinent to Europe show his displacement in the world he originated from. It is obvious that he has been away for too long and everything, from his beautiful, tanned face to the suit he is wearing looks awkward in his new surrounding. It feels as if he almost wishes to leap back to India and his familiar surroundings in orphanage. And from this point on, story starts developing with surprises on every step along the way. Emotional intensity keeps building and building. I have not seen a movie so powerful like this one since "Barbarian Invasions". This is a story of redemption, love, forgiveness and new beginings. And like most of those things, it comes wih a high price...