Product: After The Wedding (Despues De La Boda) [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
SUSANNE BIER, OPUS 9
**** 2006. Story and direction by the Danish director Susanne Bier. Nominated for the Academy award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Jacob Pederson manages an orphanage in Bombay, India. Now, he has to fly home to Denmark in order to meet a potential donor who's also his former girlfriend's husband. With a twirling camera, inherited from the Dogma artistic movement, Susanne Bier handles a very interesting theme: can you make people happy in spite of them ? Can you, like an ancient god, rule people's lives without their knowledge and, most of all, is this interaction morally defendable when good comes of it ? I'll remember for a long time the performance of Rolf Lassgrd as Jrgen Lennart Hannson, a man used to be obeyed and who never accepts no for an answer. Highly recommended.