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Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings

  • Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf LassgÃ¥rd, Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Summary: Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, After the Wedding is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness. (IFC Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 29
  2. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. One of the best films to open in the Bay Area in 2007.
  2. After the Wedding would never pretend to have any answers, but in hands this skilled the act of exploration itself couldn't be more illuminating, or more dramatic.
  3. Once again Bier demonstrates just how misleading appearances can be, as she artfully removes the veneers concealing the dark truths locked away by her intriguing characters.
  4. 50
    Evidently, this bloated piece of Oscar-nominated nonsense was a big hit in Denmark, which makes me think there's a glittering future in that otherwise discriminating country for several seasons of "Days of Our Lives."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. DougE
    10
    Extremely well done.
  2. roberti
    8
    A film as fresh and unanticipated as the sky. a story that rings true, actors that don't pander, a view that seems lifelike.
  3. MarcK.
    7
    A little on the long side, but definitely worth a look. As others have noted, appearances in this film can be very much deceiving. A more than worthy Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film. Expand
  4. JaredC.
    0
    Boring.

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