Monday, May 7, 2007

From The Danes With Love

In After The Wedding, Mads Mikkelsen plays Jacob, a Danish man who's been living in India for the past 20 years taking care of impoverished orphans. He has been summoned back to Copenhagen to meet with a man who may be able to provide his school and its town with much needed capital. Problem is, The Man in Denmark turns out to be the current husband to Jacob's old flame. And that little ring toss is only the beginning. The movie explores ideas that in a lesser film may have seemed timeworn or dull: who is your family; what is love; to whom are you bound; what is sacrifice. The director's constant use of tight shots on her characters' eyes will lead viewers to believe that in them is where all answers lay.

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