Product: After The Wedding (Despues De La Boda) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (2006)
Rating: 2.0
Great start, but falls away into near gibberish
Half an hour into this film I was hooked, wondering what the director would do with what had started out as a remarkable work. At the end I was yawning. After the Wedding starts off tremendously -- a Danish aid worker in India learns he will get the large donation he needs to keep his childrens' home running. The catch is that he has to fly to Denmark to meet the donor, who plays with him, suggesting he needs time to really decide whether to hand over the money. "I have to go to a wedding this weekend," he says. "Why not come with me?" The aid worker turns up at the wedding to discover his long-lost former girlfriend there. She's married to the donor and may or may not be the mother to the aid worker's child, one he never knew he had.Here's where we are 30 minutes in. And then it all falls apart spectacularly, dissolving into near gibberish as we're hit with melodrama piled on melodrama and bizarre plot twist following on bizarre plot twist. Sadly, none of it is convincing, and by the end I just wanted it to stop. The aid worker starts off as a cipher, someone we know little about, and that's how he stays all the way through. This movie is a mess.