Susanne Bier (whose previous film, Brothers, was featured in our 2006 Danish Film Festival) is a brilliant director of actors who excel at bringing complex, contradictory characters to the screen. In After the Wedding, a haunting exploration of love, deception, and responsibility, she introduces us to Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale's heavy Le Chiffre), a Dane living in India who manages a cash-strapped orphanage there. Jacob's single-minded devotion to the children, including his adopted son, is tested when a potential donor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) offers a desperately needed donation only on the condition that Jacob travel to Copenhagen. Reluctantly he agrees, but once back in Denmark discovers that courting Jorgen will involve more than a simple meeting. Pressured into attending the philanthropist's daughter's wedding, he dons a tux and drives to the party, where events unfold that will profoundly reshape the future for not only Jacob, but Jorgen and his family as well. In his Los Angeles Times review, Kenneth Turan wrote that "Susanne Bier mainlines emotion. She has a connection to feelings and passions that is as direct and potent as an addict's needle piercing a vein. Her fierce and compelling dramas ... serve it up straight, no chaser, and dare anyone to flinch."(Denmark/Sweden, 2006, 120 minutes) In Danish with subtitles.

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