After the Wedding
(Efter Brylluppet)
119 minutes, 2005
Mon. Oct 9, 7:00PM, Cinema Corte Madera
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Wed. Oct 11, 7:15PM, Sequoia
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Friend of the Festival screening on October 9,
free for California Film Institute members
with a ticket from the box office.
In Danish with English subtitles • Acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier (Brothers, Open Hearts) takes the stuff of melodrama and spins it into cinematic gold. Her latest is no exception. Rising international star Mads Mikkelson is Jacob, an idealistic humanitarian who runs an orphanage in India. His institution is offered a large donation on one condition: that he travel to Denmark to meet his benefactor in person. In Copenhagen he meets Jorgen (Swedish actor Rolf Lassgård), a rich and somewhat arrogant industrialist, who invites him to his daughter's wedding. Jorgen is married to Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen), and it immediately becomes apparent that she and Jacob share a past. Working again with master screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, Bier brings us up close to her characters, and in her hands the story's shattering revelations and difficult choices transcend any hint of cliché or sentiment. — A. Saknussen
Director: Susanne Bier
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Cinematographer: Morten Søborg
Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen, Morten Højbjerg
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård
Print Source: IFC Films
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